Light does not have three meanings. Light means “light.”
Attempting to translate from Symbolism into plain spoken English requires you to divvy up word meanings depending on context- English doesn’t have an equivalent word that matches “light” as a symbol exactly. This is probably the most common issue with translating between languages.
Visibility, attention, awareness is my attempt to summarize what I’ve gathered that it basically means. The general gist. It can get more complex.
This post ended up being so detailed that I’ve split it into four parts that lead into each other sequentially. You’ll have to read them in order to follow clearly. This is part one of four.
We’re going to start off tame and quasi-objective before veering off the rails towards the end…
Make sure and stay tuned for that.
Life as a Language
Thinking about Symbolism as a language has proven to be the fastest and easiest way to train laypeople like me to understand it, and I think borrowing some tools from linguistics could push us along a little further in fluency. For instance, polysemy refers to the characteristic of words have multiple senses and meanings. As with the building blocks of English, the more basic a symbol is the more contexts in which it is applied and the more potential meanings it has.
There is a limit to how far you can get with matching up dates, which is the fool proof method refined and popularized by NewClear that has worked for the past few years. The Decoding Symbols blog is the basis of everything I do here, if you’ve found this post through some other channel and haven’t read it I recommend reading the intro here.
Date matching: by timing symbolic communication against concurrent news, you can spot which events are being referenced, catch patterns and reverse engineer the meanings of individual symbols.
As an easy example, Life Savers mints were introduced immediately after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and signal cooperation with the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913. The Titanic didn’t have enough Lifesavers and one of the richest businessmen in the world, John Jacob Astor IV, had gone down with the ship. Astor had opposed the Federal Reserve politically and bankrolled Republican opposition to its establishment.
Full post here.
Sooner or later, you hit a wall with this method when a more integral understanding of the logic of the language is required. A symbol can be so fundamental and baked-in that there will never be a clean usage case to draw on to determine meaning.
Levels of Fluency
Bloom’s Taxonomy scales the different levels of thinking in order to optimize learning. You start with rote memorization, before forming connections between items you’ve memorized and sorting them into groups. Once you can place a new idea into its classified group, you’re on to distinguishing how the groups interact with each other. Beyond that you can start making judgements and defending arguments, before finally being able to create new ideas of your own.
You can see the application here.
I’d estimate myself to still be in the bottom two tiers of the pyramid with regards to understanding Symbolism. Essentially an A2 language level, able to repeat memorized phrases and understand simple scripted conversations. This is where I think most “comms aware” people are too. I think that Symbolism is similar to Church Latin or other liturgical languages in this way. The majority of Catholics have major prayers memorized and can recognize common words, but don’t understand more than that and can’t produce full Latin phrases themselves. They may be able to follow simple orders.
There’s a middle tier, then, of more educated people who can understand complex grammar and may be able to produce simple communication themselves. Not unsimilar to graduates of Catholic schools who take Latin for several years without ever speaking it out loud or a priest who learned Latin at a more advanced level to understand the text of the Latin mass but does not otherwise read Latin or write in it.
This is roughly equivalent to the B1 and B2 levels of the CEFR language scale.
This is already fairly fluent, a B2 level is what’s required to enroll in universities usually, but language understanding is still circumscribed by scripted social situations and the student is still limited in their ability to produce new communication.
There would be, of course, an upper echelon at the pinnacle of the pyramid reserved for dedicated scholars and native speakers who use Symbolism constantly to communicate among themselves and with comms aware people in lower levels of the hierarchy. Again, similar to Church Latin. Cardinals at the Vatican speak to each other in Church Latin daily (and also Italian) regardless of where in the world they’re from. Symbolism has a de facto secondary tongue as well, since even elite speakers would also by necessity have to speak English.
This cannot be a large group of people, and the clergy comparison is probably pretty apt.
Again, I think it’s clarifying and helping in forming goals to use the language interpretation of Symbolism to our advantage as learners.
So, let’s begin at the beginning.
Light as the Basic Symbol
I have a pretty basic argument for this. What was the first thing that ever happened?
In order, mentioned, are:
1. God
2. the Heavens
3. Earth
4. Darkness
5. Water
With light being the first action. The first verb. The first word. The first deployment of symbol.
My nominee for the most common symbol is light. Think about the role and function of light in our daily lives. It is the fundamental distinction we first make as babies- light v. dark.
So in order to move up the pyramid of understanding a little, we’re going to have to see if it’s possible to infer the internal logic of a symbol- with dates to hopefully back us up with proof after we glean a basic meaning from context.
Visibility
This is the most obvious and basic application of light. That which we can be seen. Not complicated.
Darkness would, by extension, apply to what we can’t see. Darkness is an absence of light. You get this already.
So apply this to the context of constructing and overseeing a society at large- what is visible and not visible to the public. What is seen by the public is in the light, what is hidden from the public is in the dark.
If something is openly discussed in media, is common wisdom, is institutionalized… it is in the light. What is only rumored about, what is taboo, and what is secret is in the dark. As far as the greater public is aware, what is in the dark might as well not exist- regardless of how powerfully and inexorably it controls their lives. Which it does.
So making something visible guides the public’s attention to it, making them aware of what you (the one guiding the light) have chosen them to see. You essentially create their world for them by choosing what is visible to them. Most are only consciously aware of what they see, regardless of much they feel or sense otherwise may define them.
Trump in April 2020: darkness to the light
March 13 of 2020, Covid-19 was officially declared a national emergency. Two weeks to Stop the Spread/ Flatten the Curve followed, dominating the national consciousness as approximately one third of Americans became unemployed at once.
While everyone else was occupied, Trump was busily signing the Artemis Accords under which exploration of the Moon and Mars would be conducted in the future. The unveiling of the deep state scandals that we are currently seeing exposed today were already being set into motion.
Trump has been in office for only three months and we’re living in an entirely different world from the one we were stuck in before.
For instance, he has publicly exposed money laundering through foreign aid, which was not a shock to anyone in the higher rungs of society or to the conspiracy-minded in the lower rungs. But what was once rumor and hidden truth is now concrete fact. What was previously done in the dark has been brought to light.
I’m speculating here, but through being aware of Symbolism and the meaning of light as a symbol in particular, I think I’ve spotted markers for two more dark-to-light scandals that haven’t hit the public yet.
Absentee ballot fraud being exposed in Wisconsin, specifically, and Deep State civil servants obstructing Covid-19 vaccine development.
Before we clock concurrent events on this date, let’s walk through possible symbolic meanings here.
A tunnel is a long, dark, walled underground path. It can’t be deviated from once begun. Emerging from the tunnel into the light could mean finishing a predetermined journey. From secrecy to open acknowledgment.
What else took place on April 6, 2020?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on absentee ballots in Wisconsin.
In avoidance of ruling on the more serious issue of whether election procedures could be changed at the last minute by an executive order from the governor, the Supreme Court instead focused on the triviality of whether ballots postmarked after election day could be counted.
This scenario links this to a seemingly unrelated event that day:
The launch of Quibi, a streaming platform that was destined to fail. The name of the company is almost a homophone for quibble. The timing on that seems pointed.
It also begins with the letter Q, the 17th letter of the alphabet.
A Brief Explanation of Q
NewClear has claimed this, and I am in solid agreement, Q is a stand-in for 17. As closely as I can translate it, 17 in Symbolism denotes the macrocosm.
The is another basic symbol that can adjust meaning a lot by usage, I think, but it essentially refers to higher order powers that guide society in the grand scale.
Q is the highest level security clearance in the U.S. government. The Q source is the hypothesized original collation of Jesus’ teachings that the existing Gospel accounts are all commonly derived from.
If Q means 17, then signaling Q prominently communicates that something very large and culture-shaping is taking place.
A post I made more than a year ago predicting that Deadpool and Wolverine was being used to end the woke agenda at Disney features a prominent usage of 17 in it’s Superbowl trailer. Ending the promotion of woke ideology to children from one of the largest media corporations in the world is certainly something that on the macroscopic scale, something that permanently shapes societies:
Full post here.
As an aside, I think when occultists use 17 it translates something closer to “as above.” “As above, so below” seems to be a core occult belief of many disparate groups. We’re go to end up heading into occultism with all of this. By extension, symmetry says there has to be an “as below” number. 9? 14? 7?
Wisconsin
Quibi went defunct in less than a year, closing shop on December 1, 2020.
This was still in the contentious weeks after the election when court cases were being filed daily and large states like California and New York were still doggedly counting absentee ballots. Biden had been declared the winner by the media but states wouldn’t officially report their results until December 6th.
Two cases were filed in Wisconsin that day. Both were denied a hearing based on technicalities. Quibbles, you could say.
These were not the only cases filed in Wisconsin at that time, nor were they the only election-related cases filed that day, but I think that the marker Trump set on Twitter/X was to highlight Wisconsin specifically.
Something is cooking in Wisconsin, because the most expensive state supreme court election to date took place there this last Tuesday. Trump’s guy didn’t win.
We’ll see where that goes.
Duplicitous Civil Servants and the Covid Vaccine
April 22, 2020:
At the end of this tunnel, this predetermined dark path from which we can’t deviate, is light being shown on something involving Covid and the economy.
This was only 18 days, a week and a half, after the last tweet. Exactly one week later, Trump would publicly announce Operation Warp Speed to extradite production of a Covid vaccine.
There was some trickery involved in this. It’s up in the air what the vaccines actually contained, but NewClear has done a lot of work that points to vaccination campaigns being tied to international tracking efforts. There’s a reason space exploration was constantly being referenced at the time.
Full post here.
Trump has, from the get go, been all-in on the vaccine. Massive online efforts have been made to stoke panic about possible side effects.
Conservative social media is inundated with conspiracies being stridently promoted by influencers who are maybe overdoing their camouflage a little. Remember vaccine shedding?
“Lioness of Judah Ministry” sounds like a character a drag queen would come up with.
Most people can pick up on that, I’m guessing. There are an inordinate number of people posing as Evangelical Christians online. You can sus them out by how they demean their target audience. People who read their bibles daily are more literate than the general population and that evinces in their writing (when it’s actually them.) They also mention religion more than once in a blue moon.
The plethora of disinformation specifically targeting Trump supporters is an indication that his opposition knows he will try to capitalize on Operation Warp Speed in the future. Whenever his plans come to fruition, he will promote himself like it was the Manhattan Project and he defeated Hitler. Sowing distrust in the public is likely an attempt to preemptively undermine him.
Although Operation Warp Speed wasn’t announced until April 29, actions were being taken behind the scene. On April 22, the date of Trump’s tweet, the director of BARDA resigned because he refused to cooperate with Operation Warp Speed.
Check his name! Bright, like shining with light. I’ll go over this more in the Awareness section, but there are a plethora of common light-themed names, and which of my truncated definitions of light they most embody can vary a lot by circumstances. Remember, it’s all actually just one definition that we have to spread out over several English words to capture.
In this case, the man named light is essentially named “spotlight here,” or “pay attention to this.”
If all the world is a stage, a stage direction for the production crew has been inserted to tell them where the scene is going. Obstinate civil servants standing in the way of THE Operation Warp Speed, as important and epoque-defining as the Manhattan Project, will be receiving lots of visibility and attention (light) at the end of tunnel.
This, I think, is already underway. The same day as the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, April 1, 2025, the Trump administration began mass layoffs within Health and Human Services. These also affected BARDA, the agency responsible for vaccine development.
Light, Bright, White and Clear
I’ll go into Guided Attention and Awareness as alternate definitions of light as a symbol in my next post, but I’d like to point out how common light as a symbol genuinely shows up. It’s probably the most common name meaning in the world.
I used Grok Deeper Search to generate this list, by the way, and it was spectacular to watch. We’re living in the future! It researched this essentially the same way I would have, and was even more thorough. It saved me probably a couple of hours of research.
Once you start noticing light as a symbol, you’ll start seeing it pop up in references constantly.
Lucas and Lucy.
Also, it’s good to have a baseline knowledge of other languages:
Yes, hell means light (in color) in German. Licht means light, as in the nation of Lichtenstein. Its neighboring principality, Luxembourg, carries light in its Latin form, lux. Probably the most radio program in U.S. history was Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast 1934-55 by NBC. Sponsored by Lux Soap.
…and so on. It’s something to be aware of.
I’ll leave this here for now, and link to Part 2 when it’s done.