{"id":137,"date":"2022-05-23T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:01:04","slug":"137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/137\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Omicron&#8217;: Considered Symbolically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Omicron: Pan or Nothing? The Rebirth of Zero\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2QUJRyhLfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>(See the video version of this presentation on YouTube.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Omicron Lexicology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May of 2021, when the World Health Organization, or WHO, announced novel naming conventions for the equally novel coronavirus, we were launched headlong into \u201conamastics,\u201d a field of study that falls under the heading of lexicology, and that Fortean \u201cblogger\u201d Loren Coleman has dubbed \u201cname games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the WHO\u2019s new vocabulary, mutated versions of the original pathogen, called \u201cvariants,\u201d will, in the foreseeable future, be designated by letters of the Greek alphabet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until the end of October of 2021, the most prominent of these variants was \u201cDelta,\u201d about which letter we will have more to say in a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, in November, the world was introduced to \u201cOmicron,\u201d which word \u2013 itself \u2013 means \u201clittle \u2018o\u2019.\u201d And stands in contrast to the more familiar letter \u201cOmega,\u201d or \u201cgreat \u2018o\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To confuse matters, we must also consider the \u201co-<em>macron,<\/em>\u201d where \u201cmacron\u201d means \u201clong\u201d or \u201cbig,\u201d and which appears with a straight bar over the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Twilight-Language expert Michael Hoffman has publicized, and as a visit to the appropriate entry on Wiktionary.com will confirm, \u201comicron\u201d has a pair of provocative anagrams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it is possible to imagine percipients rearranging these themselves \u2013 whether consciously or subconsciously, I\u2019m a bit dubious about the reliability (or impact) of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it is beyond doubt that various media outlets have drawn deliberate attention to some of these recombinations \u2013 and this exercise sets these anagrammatic possibilities before our minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, there\u2019s a widely publicized anagram spelling the word \u201cmoronic,\u201d which fits into a broad fool-related symbol pattern that I will touch on here, but further develop in a subsequent video (already in production).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or again, the letters of \u201comicron\u201d can be rearranged to create the obscure word \u201concomir,\u201d a <em>terminus technicus<\/em> (it turns out) in genetic medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Straining for credible associations, one might think back to the so-called \u201cOncomouse,\u201d a rodent mutated for the express purpose of growing cancerous tumors, ostensibly for experimental purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patents on the little monster were, for a time, the exclusive province of the corporation that, at the time, was known as E. I. DuPont de Nemours &amp; Co., or just DuPont, for short \u2013 a company that will crop up again in part two of this study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At present, it\u2019s striking that some of the same oncological and genetic key words recur in articles about the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also of interest is the fact that word \u201comicron\u201d can be broken down into the names \u201cOmi\u201d and \u201cCron\u201d which, as this Hoffman Wire points out, summon the specters of two heathen gods, Odin &#8212; recently featured as a character in various installments of the so-called Marvel Cinematic universe &#8212; and Cronus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Greek mythology, Cronus was the pre-Olympian god who castrated and deposed his father, Uranus, resulting in a separation of heaven and earth, only to be dethroned by his son, Zeus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think that this association is far-fetched, I direct your attention to this <em>New York Post<\/em> headline that unmistakably links the word \u201comicron\u201d with ideas of deity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this provides a segue to a deeper level of analysis. I believe that, when one looks, one finds a Saturnian undercurrent to recent events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturn, of course, is the Roman version of Cronus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, before we venture too far down this road, we must address an apparent difficulty. Numerous online sources are at pains to disassociate or otherwise distinguish Cronus\/Saturn from Chronos, otherwise known as the god of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is frequently claimed that it is erroneous to identify Cronus and Chronos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, whether an errant \u201cconfusion\u201d or a justified <em>equation<\/em>, the fact is, there is ample reason to consider the Greco-Roman Titan to be part of the same symbol set as the figure sometimes designated \u201cFather Time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For an obvious reason, we turn to one of America\u2019s so-called \u201cnewspapers of record,\u201d the vaunted <em>New York Times<\/em>, remarks: \u201c\u2026Saturn\u2019s Greek name, <em>Kronos<\/em>, and the Greek for \u2018time,\u2019 <em>Chronos<\/em>, are nearly identical.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a more august source, take a look at the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-to-2<sup>nd<\/sup>-c. historian and philosopher Plutarch, who asserted: \u201cCronus is \u2026a figurative name for \u2026Time\u201d \u2013 at least, according to a passage in the possibly pseudepigraphal <em>Moralia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, the anonymous ancient authority known only \u201cPseudo-Clementine,\u201d writing sometime around the third century A.D. \u2013 give or take a hundred years \u2013 declared: \u201c\u2026Chronos, who is Saturn, is allegorically time\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To quote the <em>New York Times<\/em> again: \u201cThe myth of Saturn \u2026became an allegory of time: \u2026he devours his children because time also destroys whatever it creates.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even <em>Wikipedia<\/em> can be summoned to the effect that interpreting Cronus a \u201cpersonification of time\u201d was commonplace in antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the mammoth <em>Dictionary of Ancient Deities<\/em>, published by the prestigious Oxford University Press, lists \u201cChronos\u201d and \u201cSaturn\u201d as aliases for Cronus, regarding these \u2013 with all their variant spellings \u2013 as synonyms for that deity who is both \u201cGod of the World\u201d and \u201cGod of Time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidentally, the phrase \u201cgod of the world\u201d appears reflected in the Bible, with 2 Corinthians (chapter 4, verse 4): informing us that \u201cthe god of this world\u201d blinds unbelievers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And an allied concept is picked up by curious late-19<sup>th<\/sup>\/early 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century French thinker, Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non whose book \u201cThe King\u201d or \u201cThe Lord of the World\u201d (transl. of <em>Le Roi du monde<\/em>),<a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> first printed in 1927, is an extended investigation of, and meditation upon, the legendary realm of Agartha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suffice it to say that, for purposes of this present symbol odyssey anyway, we will echo the succinct statement of the online mythology encyclopedia, Theoi.com: \u201cKronos was essentially the same as \u2026Chronos \u2026, the primordial god of time\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This association is not trivial. For one thing, some mystery religions, such as Mithraism, placed Chronos at the pinnacle of their often vast and multifarious pantheons. So, he was a pretty important guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, also, the connection ramifies the Saturnian leitmotif \u2013 which, to borrow a phrase from the Gospel According to Luke (chapter 21, verse 25), includes \u201csigns\u201d in the heavens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who remembers the so-called \u201cGreat Conjunction\u201d at the end of 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This rare astronomical event involved the perceived alignment of Jupiter and Saturn. And, despite Saturn\u2019s often dark interpretive profile, was referred to as the \u201cChristmas Star\u201d by some media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To emphasize the singular nature of this celestial state of affairs, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, underscored the fact that such a close approach of the two largest planets in our solar system hadn\u2019t occurred since the publication of William Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>First Folio<\/em> in 1623 and hadn\u2019t been visible since the Catholic crusade against the Albigensians was carried out in 1226.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With one crucial exception, press descriptions of the 2020 \u201cChristmas Star\u201d were reminiscent of a presentation, titled <em>The Star of Bethlehem<\/em>, and put on by one Rick Larson, which made the rounds in churches around 2007. The conspicuous difference was that, in Larson\u2019s hypothesis, the original star said to have heralded the birth of Jesus Christ, involved a conjunction of Jupiter with Venus, as opposed to Saturn. And this substitution changes the meaning, astrologically speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this Saturnine \u201cChristmas star\u201d announcing the birth of something? Hold that thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For, in the discipline known as mundane astrology, Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions are regarded as presaging widespread changes in \u201csociety \u2026as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, wouldn\u2019t you know it, supposedly astrology is experiencing a surge in popularity unprecedented since the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British Broadcasting Corporation, this boosted prestige is explicable in virtue of a search for guidance and meaning in the midst of a seemingly never-ending pandemic, and in the wake of explosive bursts of populism \u2013 e.g., as seen in Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever the merits or demerits of this ancient subject, the full story story behind increasing demand for the drawing up of horoscopes and related services cannot be told without mention of some of the sociological stage managers operating largely unseen, behind the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We read that, supposedly, \u201c[t]he year 2020 was a topic of anxious speculation in the astrology community long before Covid-19 became a household word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sympathetic article explains that astrologers interpreted rare conjunctions of Saturn and Pluto and the aforementioned conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter as harbingers of \u201ctrauma and transformation\u201d. Is this paragraph to be found on Oprah Winfrey\u2019s website? Or is it embedded in a sales pitch for some astrology \u201capp,\u201d like Co-Star or Sanctuary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a matter of fact, it\u2019s an excerpt from an analysis by Dr. Omi Elisha, professor of anthropology at the City University of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elisha\u2019s \u201cthink piece\u201d was posted by the non-profit Social Science Research Council, or SSRC, and is presumably written for academic specialists and industry insiders. But\u2026in what area or field? Just who and what is the SSRC?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1923, the SSRC was apparently funded by a veritable A-list of ostensibly philanthropic organizations such as the Carnegie Corporation as well as the Ford, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, Rockefeller, and Russell Sage Foundations. It\u2019s records are housed in the Rockefeller Archive Center in Westchester County, just northeast of New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Alondra Nelson, who concluded her stint as SSRC president in 2021, is billed as \u201c[a]n acclaimed sociologist\u201d who has past associations with Princeton University\u2019s esteemed Institute for Advanced Study in New jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I would be remiss if I forgot to mention that she currently serves as Deputy Science Chief to President Joe Biden. So, it seems safe to say that the SSRC does not lack establishment connexions. But, what does it <em>do<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To begin to sketch an answer that question, let\u2019s look briefly at two important figures from the SSRC\u2019s past: Charles Merriam and Harold Laswell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merriam was known for combining behavioral psychology with political science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He sought to create \u201c\u2026a manipulative science that could alter social structure\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case viewers are unaware, the use of \u201cpsychological manipulations\u201d aimed at \u201cinfluencing \u2026opinions and actions\u201d is one of the basic definitions of \u201cpropaganda\u201d given by the important 20<sup>th<\/sup>-c. French theorist Jacques Ellul. So\u2026the SSRC was essentially founded by professional propagandists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the late political philosopher Sir Bernard Crick, Merriam and his cohorts \u2013 such as Lasswell \u2013 particularly focused on the creation of propaganda that was characterized by \u201c\u2026the manipulative use of \u2018symbols,\u2019 \u2018slogans\u2019 and \u2018key-words\u2019\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lasswell himself explicitly stated that such a symbolical manipulation of the public was the means by which \u201c\u2026elites \u2026may \u2026be attacked or defended\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To put it slightly differently, Lasswell believed that \u201c[t]he <em>elite<\/em> preserves its ascendancy\u2026\u201d, in part, \u201c\u2026by manipulating symbols\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far from being a dead letter, something of this same sentiment was recently articulated by <em>The Matrix Resurrections<\/em> director, Lana Wachowski, when she stated that \u201ctechnology \u2026[has t]he power \u2026to trap or limit our subjective reality\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That money elites have a deep, abiding academic <em>and<\/em> economic interest in propaganda and symbolism should be kept firmly in mind when we discover, for instance, that the current wave of COVID has the same name as an obscure, 1963 Italian sci-fi \u201cflick\u201d about a body-invading alien bent on world domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is especially so since it is an open secret that government information brokers and psychological-warfare operators, not least of which include the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, have \u2013 for years \u2013 had an <em>entr\u00e9e<\/em> into so-called \u201cshow business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise, discovering \u201comicron\u201d references in video games should scarcely surprise us, for similar reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Namely, there has arguably been a CIA\/video-game-company pipeline since (at least) the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the cover story is that such a connexion is merely the \u201centertainment industry\u201d equivalent of former athletes being enlisted as broadcasters for their \u201ccolor commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who have a bit more familiarity with the history of \u201cpsych war\u201d may be forgiven if they are unable to suppress a chuckle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But unusual and symbolical references are hardly limited to amusements and diversions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you believe that some cases of COVID secondary infection have a physiological presentation dubbed \u201cRings of Saturn\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us turn, for a moment anyway, from these odds and ends, to a more significant image \u2013 the visage of the man nominated \u201c\u2026the public face of the Capitol Riot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His semi-nude appearance and horned head reminds this observer of the wild and woolly \u201cfertility spirits\u201d and companions of the god Pan that are known as Satyrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, you don\u2019t need too much assistance locating these fantastic beasts, as they are part of a cluster of mythic figures who are \u201c\u2026not difficult to catch\u2026\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026as this particular specimen discovered shortly after his odd photo session on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the myriad remarkable features of this quasi-Satyr, especially in light of the Greek-flavored alphabet soup served up by the doctors at WHO, is the tattoo emblazoned over his left pectoral muscle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Per a hyperbole-laced article on theconversation.com, the symbol in question \u2013 a \u201cValknut\u201d \u2013 is Nordic in origin, and therefore linked to the previously mentioned Odin. But, in any case, consists of a trio of mutually interlocking <em>deltas<\/em> \u2013 which word is, of course, the name of another prominent member of the COVID variety pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The triangle-shaped delta occurs in the symbology of Freemasonry, where it frequently is represented with an eye in its center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weirdly, as the VigilantCitizen.com noticed, the Greek letter \u201comicron\u201d developed out of earlier alphabetic characters \u2013 such as the Semitic <em>ayin<\/em>, found in Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Syriac \u2013 that were originally modeled after the human eye. What a coinkydink. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some sources claim that the Omicron variant may have \u201cunusual symptoms\u201d that may include \u201c\u2026sore eyes.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the triangle\/delta, a supreme Masonic symbol of deity (according to widely cited authority Albert Mackey), is usually drawn emanating various \u201crays\u201d that are known as a \u201cglory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As discussed in our previous video, another name for a \u201cglory\u201d is a <em>corona<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before we move off of the delta, we shouldn\u2019t forget that at least some of those involved in the events of January 6, 2020 \u2013 which will be examined more in depth in part two \u2013 would have marched from the Trump rally to the Capitol along the hypotenuse of what is called in Washington D.C. \u201cFederal Triangle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Masonic lore, the hypotenuse of the Pythagorean triangle stands for the issue of a \u201csacred marriage,\u201d or <em>hieros gamos<\/em>, between the divine masculine and the divine feminine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Believe it or not, the symbolism of the Pythagorean triangle isn\u2019t the only sexualized element of this whole sordid affair. First of all, we should note that, according to <em>The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters<\/em>,<a href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> not only \u201cSaturn\u201d and \u201csatyr\u201d cognates, they also both derive from the Greek word for the male reproductive organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ancient natural historian Pliny the Elder concurs on the point, saying that the word \u201csatyr\u201d is the namesake of the <em>membrum virile<\/em> on account of their proclivity toward lust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is likely one reason why satyrs are sometimes depicted ithyphallically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would all perhaps be an irrelevance, presently, were it not for a bizarre fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Bureau of Investigation entered into evidence, in an official court filing, a photoshopped image featuring the QAnon Shaman adjacent to a lewd picture of a man. Officially, there was no suggestion that the FBI had created the so-called \u201cmeme\u201d \u2013 merely that some unwitting agent had included it by accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted in passing already, satyrs are also associated with faun-like god, Pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lusty figure lends his name to the terror-stricken frame of mind termed <em>panic<\/em> an all-too-familiar modifier in our era of around-the-clock COVID media coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh\u2026 recall when we asked about whether the \u201cgreat\u201d Saturn-Jupiter conjunction should be read as a birth announcement? Consider that Arthur Machen, the 19<sup>th<\/sup>-20<sup>th<\/sup>-c. Welsh horror novelist wrote a book called \u201cThe Great God Pan.\u201d The plot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well\u2026 let\u2019s just say that it appears to have been one of the principal forerunners \u2013 not to say inspirations \u2013 for Ira Levin\u2019s 1967 book, Rosemary\u2019s Baby, which was made into a movie the following year by Polish-born filmmaker Roman Polanski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not for nothing that the proprietors of tarot.com bid readers to take note of \u201c\u2026the similarity between the words \u2018Saturn\u2019 and \u2018Satan\u2019\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This connexion is also drawn by Aleister Crowley\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Kenneth Grant, who links Saturn \u2013 and his emasculating sickle \u2013 with Satan, Shaitan, and Set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet a further peculiarity stems from the QAnon Shaman\u2019s real name \u2013 which, by the way, is prone to vary from article to article. He is sometimes called \u201cJake Angeli.\u201d At other times, his surname is given as Chansley. And I seem to recall once reading that it was \u201cAngeli Chansley.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Online Etymology Dictionary<\/em> starts us off by registering the idea, dated from 1854, that \u201cJake\u201d is \u201c\u2026the typical name of a rustic lout,\u201d or country bumpkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, the really juicy tidbit lies in the more usual observation that <em>Jacob<\/em> means \u201csupplanter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or to be technical, the meaning is sometimes given by the phrase \u201che takes by the heel\u201d or \u201che cheats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, we may turn to the Bible for insight. In the Book of Genesis (chapter 27, verse 36), we read that Esau \u2013 son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham \u2013 lamenting the theft, by his own brother, of his birthright, exclaims: \u201cIs he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What intrigues me, here, can be gleaned from the offbeat, seventeenth-century treatise <em>Daemonologia Sacra<\/em>, written by marginal English minister named Richard Gilpin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilpin makes the incisive remark that \u201c\u2026we may say of [Satan]\u201d what \u201c<em>Esau<\/em> said of <em>Jacob<\/em>\u201d: they\u2019re both supplanters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, Cronus-Saturn was a supplanter, too. After all, he overthrew his father, Uranus, until he was himself overthrown by Zeus-Jupiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, right at center stage, and in the midst of all these Saturnian\/Satanic references, we\u2019re presented with a burly character whose name translates to \u201csupplanting angel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, if Angeli is playing a Saturnian role, then where is his sickle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arguably, there\u2019s been no more prominent face, lately, than that of Anthony Fauci. He\u2019s dominating the news cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason for his celebrity owes to his dual position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Oxford University\u2019s Dictionary of American Family Names, the surname \u201cFauci\u201d means, well\u2026 Have you guessed it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fauci<\/em> means \u201csickle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Omicron Numerology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s a numerological aspect to all this as well. And, as usual, it\u2019s multifaceted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For starters, as with Hebrew, Latin, and some other languages, Greek characters lead a double life as both letters and numerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viewers will observe that, considered as a <em>cardinal<\/em> or \u201ccounting\u201d number, omicron is assigned a value of 70. It may be passing interest, therefore, that news reports of late have been seasoned with references to 70s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, until a retraction was issued, we were told that the omicron variant accounted for around 70% of COVID cases (at least, in California).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omicron supposedly \u201cmultiplies 70 times faster than Delta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, it\u2019s around 70% less severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omicron \u2013 or a variant cousin \u2013 seems to have afflicted 70 medics at one Christmas party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And one community is summoning an equivalent number of national guard persons to address the associated \u201csurge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or again, guess how many cruise liners have allegedly been \u201chit by COVID\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, here\u2019s one: what percentage of \u201cimmunization coverage\u201d is the WHO aiming at by mid-2022?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you need a hint, it\u2019s the same name that keeps showing up in reports about January 6, 2020, concerning arrests, guilty pleas, and sentencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the total (if preposterously large) number of \u201c\u2026Riot \u2026Defendants\u201d is a multiple of 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, coincidentally, it\u2019s also the number of military-connected participants to the so-called \u201cCapitol Insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as the number of officers who have resigned or otherwise \u201cleft the Capitol Police since the January 6 Riot.\u201d Again, stay tuned for the second part of this study where I will be preoccupied with the symbolism specifically surrounding January 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But 70 isn\u2019t the only numerical value of interest. For Saturn \u2013 by way of it\u2019s 3&#215;3 \u201cmagic square\u201d \u2013 has a magnetic relationship with the number 15. You will see that every column, diagonal, and row in the diagram sums to 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I was unsurprised to read that 15% of arrestees have been denied bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or that Omicron was \u2013 at the time of writing \u2013 found in 15 U.S. States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And seeing that Jake Angeli was sentenced to a total of 51 months in prison, you will note that \u201c51\u201d is merely \u201c15\u201d with the digits transposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be strictly accurate, Angeli-Chansley\u2019s ultimate sentence was 41 months \u2013 though it was unclear to me whether he was given a reduced prison sentence, or whether he was simply given credit for the 10+ months of time he had already served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be that as it may, one of the major components of occult theory and practice is the Tarot. So, it is always worth a look to see if there is some relevant correspondence, particularly to the so-called \u201cTrump\u201d cards. In this case, card XV \u2013 labeled \u201cThe Devil\u201d in both the Rider-Waite and Crowley decks \u2013 caught my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Aleister Crowley, the 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century magus \u00c9liphas L\u00e9vi \u201c\u2026[identified The Devil card] with Baphomet, the ass-headed idol of the Knights of the Temple,\u201d also known as the Knights Templar.<a href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crowley goes on to remark that the \u201c\u2026card \u2026[also] refers to Capricornus in the Zodiac.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn7\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This association is made fairly obvious in Crowley\u2019s version of the card. He adds that: \u201c \u2026The sign is ruled by Saturn\u2026 [And t]he card represents Pan Pangenetor, the All-Begetter.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn8\">[8]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It should be noted that Crowley explicitly equates Saturn with the Egyptian god Set as well as with the Islamic Shaitan and Satan.<a href=\"#_ftn9\">[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crowley concludes his fascinating analysis of the fifteenth Tarot Trump by drawing one final reference to Pan and connecting \u201cThe Devil\u201d symbol \u201c\u2026to the letter \u2019Ayin, which means an Eye.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn10\">[10]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And\u2026 with that, we come full circle, so to speak, back to the \u201comicron\u201d which letter, you will recall, also derived from <em>\u2019Ayin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We arrive, also, at what is perhaps the most crucial numerological correspondence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Edward Burger writes, in the \u201cThe Power of Zero,\u201d \u201c[I]n the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> century CE, Ptolemy used the Greek letter omicron, which looks like an \u2018O,\u2019 to denote \u2018nothing.\u2019 So, this is the symbol for zero, the \u2018o\u2019 that we see \u2013 the circle.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn11\">[11]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, one \u2013 contested \u2013 hypothesis has it that omicron was used since the Greek word for \u201cnothing\u201d started with that letter. Speaking of \u201cnothing,\u201d I seem to recollect seeing that word somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh yes, I remember! Nothing is what we\u2019ll soon own, according to the World Economic Forum. But\u2026we\u2019ll \u201c\u2026be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s part and parcel of the \u201cGreat Reset,\u201d of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Announced in June of 2020, \u201cThe Great Reset\u201d was the \u201ctheme\u201d of what the World-Economic-Forum press release termed \u201ca unique twin summit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which also happened to be the 51<sup>st<\/sup> meeting of Davos men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The face and founder of World Economic Forum is the dour-looking German-born engineer, Klaus Schwab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Great-Reset initiative was jointly announced by Schwab in conjunction with Britain\u2019s Prince Charles, the Secretary General of the U.N., and the head of the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it is being undertaken with financial titans from Asia, Europe, and North America \u2013 including British Petroleum, Mastercard, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequently, the phraseology was echoed by other heavy hitters, such as venture capitalist Peter Thiel, author of the book <em>Zero to One<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s intriguing to note that one of the primary definitions for the word \u201creset\u201d is to set back to a zero state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that \u201czero\u201d is a buzz word and choice title for numerous projects and schemes, of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does its relation to the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d have to do with its mathematical reputation as the \u201cGreat Equalizer\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any other number, when multiplied by zero, produces zero as a result; and any other number raised to the power of zero becomes 1. On the other hand, adding or subtracting zero has no effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a way, zero\u2019s equalizing properties are inescapable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, the U.S. Army doctor thinks that, in a similar way, \u201cthere\u2019s no way\u201d to escape the Omicron variant \u2013 \u201cthe whole world will be vaccinated or \u2026infected\u201d (or perhaps both).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we may not need armchair speculation about the significance of the \u201cGreat Reset.\u201d For 2021 had been declare \u201cA New \u2018Year Zero\u2019\u201d by the same Klaus Schwab whose expressionless visage we just saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schwab is self-consciously drawing a line to the \u201cYear Zero,\u201d or \u201cZero Hour,\u201d that began in 1945 with the \u201cde-Nazification\u201d of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the relevant Wikipedia article, \u201cZero Hour\u201d is a synonym for \u201cradical new beginnings\u201d and the eradication of \u201cold traditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the World Economic Forum program isn\u2019t the only one that is preoccupied with zero-related symbolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmentalism and \u201cclimate-change\u201d doomsayers are as well, as exemplified in this video production from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, \u201cNet Zero\u201d has become the stated goal of those who wish to eliminate carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among \u201cnet-zero\u201d enthusiasts is former Microsoft chieftain, Bill Gates, who revealed in September of 2021 that he was \u201claunching his own news publication\u201d name \u201cCipher,\u201d which derives from an old Arabic word for <em>zero<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Symbolically, <em>sifra<\/em> basically designates a consul, satrap, or viceroy whose authority is delegated to him by the true sovereign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognates abound, and seem to be popular choices for villain names, as evidenced by Le Chifre, in the 2006 remake of the James Bond movie, <em>Casino Royale<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or the traitorous, original Matrix character, Cypher, who expresses regret over having taken the red \u201ctruth pill,\u201d and eventually favorably quotes the aphorism \u201cignorance is bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The English word \u201ccipher\u201d sometimes also referred to something expressed secretly, or in code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This usage reflects the fact that the concept of zero emanates uncertainty another commonality with Omicron, a variant against which current vaccines provide \u201cabsolutely zilch\u201d (i.e., <em>zero<\/em>) in terms of protection, according to immunologist\u2019s lament, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the late historian of the occult James Webb pointed out, \u201clarge outbreaks of unreason\u201d often follow fast on the heels on societal catastrophes, such as the \u201ccrisis of Zero A.D.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notorious global consulting firm McKinsey, which helped construct the now ubiquitous, zebra-striped Universal Product Code, Omicron is ushering in a new \u201cuncertain chapter\u201d in the pandemic narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this <em>because of<\/em> Omicron\u2019s \u201cuncertain origin\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Cartesian geometrical terms, of course, the <em>origin<\/em> is always 0,0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And division by zero results in a quotient that is variously labeled as \u201cinfinity\u201d or \u201cundefined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this is being presented as an ominous portent for the world and the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this is despite the fact that, for many weeks, it was said that Omicron was responsible for \u201czero deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A claim that even the system-approved \u201cfact checkers\u201d at Snopes.com acknowledged was <em>true<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, the Federal Reserve Bank, known as \u201cthe Fed,\u201d has kept interest rates hovering around <em>zero<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may recall that the initial rationale for the zero percent involved the Fed\u2019s claim that such rock-bottom rates were required to avert market panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word \u201cpanic,\u201d of course, takes us back to the god Pan whose name signifies \u201call\u201d \u2013 the exact opposite of nothing \u2013 and who may, or may not, be the most ancient of pagan deities. (Appropriately enough, Pan\u2019s origins are uncertain.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about Mr. Jake Angeli, whose widely circulated Pan-lookalike images made him the spokesmodel for the Capitol Riot? Prior to January 6, he had \u201czero criminal history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, the 15-year-old Oxford High School shooter, Ethan Crumbley, had no prior disciplinary infractions before taking the lives of several of his classmates \u2013 one of whom was repeated pictured with large yellow-orange \u201czeroes\u201d &nbsp;on his jacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is of course vital to appreciate that, in English, the numeral zero and the letter \u201cO\u201d are often used interchangeably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So much so that a popular 1990s television show, ostensibly the zip code for Beverly Hills, California, 90210, was pronounce \u201cnine-oh-two-one-oh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or again, consider the 2012 movie <em>Zero Dark Thirty<\/em>, which presented Hollywood\u2019s version of the search for Osama bin Laden. In military jargon, the titular phrase would most often be heard as \u201coh dark thirty\u201d \u2013 which could almost be the opening words of an occultically themed ode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, when you see the photograph of the unfortunate Tate Myre, remember that it makes virtually <em>zero<\/em> <em>difference<\/em> whether the prominent patch on his \u201cvarsity jacket\u201d is a numeral or the initial letter of \u201cOxford,\u201d the visual impact is arguably the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relatedly, the roundabout outside Oxford High School\u2019s entrance discharges the same, zero-point energy, if I may take a little artistic license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were introduced to circular signs during the most recent presidential election cycle, as Joe Biden\u2019s campaign logo featured four of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His design may itself have been a takeoff from the emblem previously used by Barack O-bama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning away from circles, for a moment, let us recollect the campaign speech in which Hillary Clinton \u201c\u2026put half of Trump\u2019s supporters into \u2026the basket of deplorables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of the present study, this is interesting \u2013 not least because \u201cdeplorables,\u201d in this context, refers to people who are regarded as uneducated, \u201cworthless nobodies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deplorables are people with \u201cno importance or authority\u201d at all \u2013 not even as ciphers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As pointed out in the <em>Handbook on Autoethnography<\/em>, our familiar, zero\/\u201cO\u201d shape would be a fitting shorthand for such people \u2013 partly as a throwback to Odysseus\u2019s ploy to outwit the Cyclops in Homer\u2019s epic <em>The Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, \u201cdeplorables\u201d are contemptuous, undistinguished <em>zeros<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 2018 film <em>Vice<\/em>, Christian Bale portrays George W. Bush\u2019s former V.P., in a stylized take on how Dick Cheney became \u2013 in the director\u2019s estimation \u2013 one of most powerful autocrats in U.S. history from \u201c\u2026a big, fat, piss-soaked <em>zee-roh<\/em>\u201d as actress Amy Adams memorably stated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Penguin Dictionary of Symbols<\/em> builds upon the observation that zeros have \u201cno properties\u201d of their own, by connecting this powerful numeral to \u201c\u2026the initiatory significance of the Fool in the Tarot pack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also called \u201cthe Simpleton,\u201d \u201c\u2026the Fool has no number.\u201d Well\u2026no positive number, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viewers may wish to ponder a moment the fact, stated earlier, that one of \u201comicron\u2019s\u201d anagrams is a synonym for the word <em>fool<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-proclaimed \u201clibertarian\u201d pundit Kristin Tate drew a direct parallel between \u201cfools\u201d and Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables\u201d in her 2020 book, <em>The Liberal Invasion of Red State America<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cover art is provocative and suggests a possible link with the \u201cPurple Revolution\u201d concept attributed to Bank-of-England \u201cbreaker,\u201d George Soros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Economic Forum itself associates the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d \u2013 or zeroing \u2013 with what it labels \u201cthe Fourth Industrial Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this probably won\u2019t shock attentive observers, since the pervasive Saturnian symbolism has had revolutionary connotations since antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fool tarot card is variously designated \u201c0\u201d and \u201c22.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which variance amounts to six of one and half dozen of the other, since \u2013 either way \u2013 the Fool is said to represent \u201c\u2026a return to zero, like [resetting] a meter\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, used as a verb, \u201czero\u201d and \u201creset\u201d are frequently intersubstitutable in the field of electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And wouldn\u2019t you know it? Who else stands for both \u201cend and \u2026beginning\u201d? Why Saturn, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s take stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explicit \u201ctime\u201d references have been prominent parts of many recent news items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think back, once more, to Jacob Angeli Chansley, the man the media coronated the \u201cQAnon Shaman.\u201d Rolling Stone reports that Mr. Angeli is alleged to have written a note to Mike Pence, warning the then-vice president \u201cit\u2019s only a matter of time; justice is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a slightly more sober-minded source, take a look at this tantalizing headline from <em>Scientific American<\/em> titled \u201cNow Is the Time to Reestablish Reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It includes a juicy quotation from our old friend Alondra Nelson, of Social Science Research Council fame, you might recall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelson advises \u201cBiden and his team\u201d that, in order to sell the American public on \u201ca sense of shared reality,\u201d it is necessary to \u201creset the clock.\u201d The full implications of this are a little, well\u2026 uncertain. But Dr. Nelson suggests that it would need to involve the use of \u201cexecutive orders \u2013 likely building upon the Draconian edifice expanded by Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In line with the SSRC\u2019s <em>raison d&#8217;etre<\/em>, this chronological \u201czeroing\u201d will involve \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d \u201cbehavioral science\u201d and a liberal dose of denigration for \u201cconspiratorial delusions and paranoid thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cScience and Technology Now Sit in the Center\u2026\u201d Or, to be more precise, technocrats sit in the center, wearing white lab coats for \u201cphoto ops\u201d brought to by their corporate sponsors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a final note, let\u2019s consider Marxist-inspired \u201cCritical Theorist,\u201d Walter Benjamin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his 1940 essay, \u201cTheses on the Philosophy of History,\u201d otherwise known as \u201cOn the Concept of History,\u201d Benjamin developed his notion of <em>jetztzeit<\/em>, or a \u201c\u2026time that is ripe\u201d for revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Benjamin\u2019s estimation, revolutionary upheaval is precipitated by a moment he calls <em>Stillstellung<\/em>, sometimes translated as \u201cstandstill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the editors at Marxists.org preferred the phrase \u201czero-hour,\u201d instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This \u201cZero-Hour\u201d sparks a chain of events of supposedly \u201cmessianic\u201d proportions and enables the stage-managers to exploit a \u201crevolutionary chance\u201d to reorganize the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, alas, I see we\u2019re out of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See part two for an in-depth look at the so-called 2020 \u201cCapitol Insurrection,\u201d including tie-ins to Victor Hugo\u2019s 1831 novel <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em>, the opening scene of which takes place during the joint celebration of Epiphany and the Feast of Fools, January 6, 1482.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Stephen Orgel, \u201cSaturn\u2019s Revolutions,\u201d <em>New York Times<\/em>, Oct. 31, 1981, section 1, p. 27, &lt;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/10\/31\/opinion\/saturn-s-revolutions.html&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1927.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> Felicia Hou and Kylie Logan, \u201cOmicron symptoms: How they differ from Delta, the flu, and a cold, and how quickly they\u2019ll show up,\u201d <em>Fortune<\/em>, Dec. 27, 2021, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/12\/27\/omicron-blindsided-world-symptoms\/\">https:\/\/fortune.com\/2021\/12\/27\/omicron-blindsided-world-symptoms\/<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> Jeffrey Weinstock, London: Routledge, 2016, p. 234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> Aleister Crowley, <em>The Book of Thoth<\/em>, Stamford, Conn.: U.S. Games Systems, 1996, p. 105.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref9\">[9]<\/a> Ibid., p. 106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref10\">[10]<\/a> Ibid., p. 105.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref11\">[11]<\/a> Edward Burger, \u201cThe Power of Zero,\u201d <em>Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers<\/em> (<em>Great Courses<\/em>), Feb. 15, 2017, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcoursedaily.com\/zero\/\">https:\/\/www.thegreatcoursedaily.com\/zero\/<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron Lexicology In May of 2021, when the World Health Organization, or WHO, announced novel naming conventions for the equally novel coronavirus, we were launched headlong into \u201conamastics,\u201d a field of study that falls under the heading of lexicology, and that Fortean \u201cblogger\u201d Loren Coleman has dubbed \u201cname games.\u201d In the WHO\u2019s new vocabulary, mutated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/137\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Omicron&#8217;: Considered Symbolically&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,313,323,306,311,324,310,320,304,321,300,312,316,314,303,301,322,317,307,297,299,305,319,315,298,302,4,9,3,309,318],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anagrams","tag-archetypes","tag-ciphers","tag-cronus","tag-cultural-symbolism","tag-deplorables","tag-esoteric-interpretation","tag-great-reset","tag-greek-alphabet","tag-klaus-schwab","tag-lexicology","tag-media-symbolism","tag-metaphysical-symbolism","tag-myth-and-language","tag-mythological-symbolism","tag-name-games","tag-nothings","tag-occult-linguistics","tag-odin-mythology","tag-omicron","tag-onomastics","tag-pan-symbolism","tag-reset","tag-semiotics","tag-symbolic-analysis","tag-symbolism","tag-synchromysticism","tag-synchronicity","tag-twilight-language","tag-word-symbolism","tag-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}