AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following 3-part 4-part series was written during the calendar year 2023, in advance of the December release of Paul King’s Wonka, which starred 2024’s Dune messiah, Timothée Hal Chalamet.
“Oompa Loompa doo-pa dee doo
I’ve got another puzzle for you”
There’s a new Willy Wonka movie coming out in December, did you hear? It’s called Wonka, stars latest Tinseltown it-boy Timothée Chalamet, and was asked for by exactly no one, but here it comes anyway, set for prominent Xmas release in 2023. Or, maybe someone did ask for a new Wonka movie. But what someone?
Who?
Before a puzzle can be put together, first all the pieces must be dumped out on the table. Most of what follows here can be considered dumping the pieces out on the table. Hopefully by the time you’re through with it, you’ll have begun to work on the puzzle for yourself.
“Who can take tomorrow
dip it in a dream
separate the sorrow
& collect up all the cream?”
There are two films which have adapted Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so far. These are 1971’s beloved classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder, and 2005’s less loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. These two films share the Dahl DNA, though it was filtered through vastly different lenses.
The precise day Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory premiered was 6/28/1971. It was in Chicago, IL the first day that viewers got a taste of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: the purple jacket and top-hat, the colorful sets and candy props, the moderately catchy songs, the Oompa-Loompas, the naughty children. As a story WW carries the air of a 19th-century fairy tale: the idea that for children the only proper state of being is punishment. It’s remembered mostly for its traumatizing scenes of the bad kids meeting their various implied grotesque fates, as well as the hallucinogenic slideshow in a candy boat that at one point involves a butchered chicken that if broadcast in the 1990s might have given Japanese audiences seizures en masse. But all of it first premiered on Monday, the 28th of June, 1971.
And thus here is our first big old-school “Sync,” because this day 6/28/1971 also happens to be the birthday of Elon Musk. Not just his birthday, but the day he was born. From this humble seed of an apparently chance alignment will grow a mighty tree of correspondences, one that might leave even a seasoned Kabbalist examining the ends of their shoes.
To start, how does Elon Musk relate to Willy Wonka?
It’s fairly obvious, isn’t it? If a description were given as “eccentric rich guy with factories full of inventions in different disciplines who also has an odd obsession with children,” it would be hard to know if it was meant to refer to Willy Wonka or Elon Musk. Look: their names even contain the same nasal “-on” syllable (and the pesky “k-”)—note also that the M (for Musk) is a flipped-over W (for Wonka). Beyond all this, the fact that they both actually debuted on the same day raises the most questions.
On one hand this may be a case of mere synchronicity—yet another grand expression of the cosmic ordering of stuff, which often seems to have been intricately laid out by some trickster spirit. On the other hand, if you were to presume, as the more paranoid do, that everything about the person known as Elon Musk is a carefully constructed front-persona for the advancement of various deep social-engineering agendas, also known as a “lifetime actor,” probably not even born on that day at all, then his having this precise birthday might be just the sort of symbolism you would expect to find winking at you from the op’s scenery. Then again, moving forward, these synchro-matrices will become so all-pervasive that ultimately it seems impossible for any one human agency to have dictated it, even though it’s also too perfect to not be by some kind of design. Crypto-K often involves ping-ponging back and forth between these two ‘noided’ perspectives (para-/pro-) never quite settling on one or the other.
So the first film under the Willy Wonka umbrella was a direct sync with the birth of Elon Musk, seemingly a real-life Willy Wonka. That’s a start. But now, let’s add to the picture, enhance its complexity: a happy little parent-thesis here, a cozy little mid-point there.
It took 34 years before anyone would try again with Willy Wonka (and 18 more before the next attempt—at this rate we can expect another one around 2031). Not because the original was untouchable, but more because it was around this time that Hollywood began to lose all sense of originality. Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiered on 7/10/2005 to a chorus of yawns attempting to say, ‘It’s about what you’d expect.’ In that film, Willy Wonka was played by Johnny Depp, which means that now both Elon Musk and Johnny Depp can be associated in one way or another with the character Willy Wonka. Of course, we also know from “The Trial” that both Depp and Musk had relations with Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard. They are or were all good friends in other words, and who knows what else. In gentler terms, this means the synchronistic relationship between Depp and Musk (both associated with Willy Wonka) overlaps a confirmed material one. We could name this sort of real-life-mirroring-sync-happenstance Substance. The missing components are Structure and Dimension, both of which emerge from a look at the temporal footprint (or wake) left behind by the otherwise ephemeral passing of sequential experience. Without these more formal elements, the Musk/Depp overlap is merely an interesting coincidence (or synchronicity). When the Five Seals are applied and the historical footprint examined, it leaves the realm of probabilities and enters a different place altogether, the one covered by Crypto-K.
So, we know Musk was born 6/28/1971, the day Willy Wonka premiered. Johnny Depp was born 6/9/1963. Turns out, the two men’s birthdays bracket exactly 420 weeks.
Nice. That’s a start. 42 is the First Seal. 42 is the Popcorn. It’s the one everybody knows and loves. But it’s not just about seeing a ’42’—it’s a multi-layered hit. Recall Elon’s nerdy fondness for the “420 69” meme, where these numbers are seen as special or “cool” due to various symbolic connotations and are often paired together in jokes. These two numbers could be said to be representative of counterculture (420 being the universal numeric signifier for cannabis, and 69 being… well, you know). They have been the target of special attention by the culture for many years (the time-travelling stoners Bill & Ted were also great proponents of 420 and 69). In his full-scale embodiments of Hunter S Thompson and Edward D. Wood Jr. Johnny Depp became a de facto King of the counterculture (and elements of the Thompson performance would also show up in his portrayal of Willy Wonka). Now, notice Depp’s birthday: 6/9—and there are 420 weeks from Depp to Musk. Double nice!
The numbers 42 and 69 are related in another important way, via the pathway of integers illustrated by this sequence of simple additions starting at 27 and continually adding 42.
27 + 42 = 69 / 69 + 42 = 111 / 111 + 42 = 153 / 153 + 42 = 195 / 195 + 42 = 237
Every one of these numbers can be shown to have greater cultural cachet than most others, but independently of that, as seen here, they all exist in a symbiotic relationship with each other that algorithmically generates 153 and 237, as well as 69, eleventy-one, and 195 (this last might be recognizable by students of Richard Hoagland’s tetrahedral geometry). In other words the primacy of these particular numbers exists both in the way they are all found distributed randomly throughout the culture, and intrinsically together as integers. As far as we can tell, no other parties (such as practitioners over the years of gematria or numerology, or professional mathematicians, for instance) have noticed these particular relationships between these particular numbers, but this information goes a long way, it turns out. Don’t stress out about it, but keep it in mind, dear reader. We’ve only just begun. The picture so far is simple, but will soon expand.
“Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?”
It must be pointed out that of course Elon Musk does not play Willy Wonka, though Johnny Depp does. The only concrete association between Musk and Wonka is the birthday correspondence (and the ‘on’ syllable)—the rest is metaphor... until it isn’t.
It was Gene Wilder who played Willy Wonka in 1971, beating out virtually every other big actor in Hollywood. His name abbreviates to GW, but as Wonka likes to say, “strike that, reverse it” and it’s WG, which is alphanumerically 23-7. Wilder was born on 6/11/1933, which means Johnny Depp, who played Wonka in 2005, was born on the 3rd day before the original Wonka Gene Wilder’s 30th birthday. As you have no doubt noticed, 6/11 becomes 9/11 via a horizontal flip—do a study on 6/11 throughout history and you will learn just as much as you would by looking at 9/11. Wilder would later go on to play the title role in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, another example of an actor consistently embodying a trope, in this case the Mad Scientist… the Wizard, the genius with an obvious screw loose, something not quite right behind the eyes, but who has seized the hidden mechanisms of the realm and wields them toward mysterious ends. As such, Willy Wonka lords over his ‘subjects’ (everybody else) like a mostly-benevolent King, doling out chocolate along with snippets of wisdom mixed with sarcasm, plus a dash of outright hostility.
But as King, Wonka’s interests extend far beyond candy: he wants control of media at-large, as the scene with ‘Mike Teavee’ makes clear. Willy Wonka has mastered television—if not invented it—to the point that he can now fully merge real-life with TV. Oh boy. Does that sound like the mediascape in 2023 or what? In Tim Burton’s version with Johnny Depp, Wonka’s TV-machine injects Mike Teavee directly into 2001: A Space Odyssey, specifically into the scene with the apes circling around Kubrick’s Monolith, except the Monolith has been replaced by a giant Wonka bar. You could say the M becomes a W. What was Burton saying here? Was he trying to say anything at all, or was he simply making a joke, and thus allowing something else to speak through his film?
Note that the day after Gene Wilder first appeared on screens wearing Willy Wonka’s purple jacket (on the first full day of Musk’s life) was the 19th day after Wilder turned 38, which is 19 + 19. Notice also that every June, between Johnny’s birthday and Elon’s birthday, there are exactly 19 days. The Rule of 19 making itself known here with force.
So what’s the move now? There is Substance and there is Dimension: it’s time for some Structure, in other words it’s time to draw a parent-thesis (or three), the basic syntactical unit of a Crypto-Matrix. For it is the motto of Crypto-K when faced with such dilemmas: when in doubt, find the mid-point! Strange as it might seem, the dialectical act of parent-thesizing history can reveal much about the underlying synchronistic expression at work.
Here now are visualized all the data-points we have so far:
There are 3 parent-theses here and thus 3 mid-points to be found between the births of these 3 men (represented by the 3 question marks). This is a June matrix, each birthdate in June, so it would seem that all the mid-points will also be in June, making for a matrix comprised of six sixes (6 dates in the 6th month).
First let’s take a look at the mid-point between the births of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp (the only two actors to have played Willy Wonka up until 2023): 6/9/1948.
The day saw an agreement made between both sides of the Arab-Israeli War which had been raging since the foundation of Israel the previous month. The truce would take effect two days later on 6/11, which was Gene Wilder’s 15th birthday. Note the progression from the 9th to the 11th, and the fact that 6/9 and 6/11 are the birthdays of the two Willy Wonka actors. Inclusively there are 3 days from 6/9 to 6/11, which means that Wilder turned 15, 3 days after the mid-point with Depp, and turned 30, 15 years, 3 days after. This June 9th to 11th birthday-pairing between the two men who played Willy Wonka must be looked at with as much suspicion as one might have toward anything known to be cooked up by national intelligence outfits. Gene Wilder was born to a Jewish family in Wisconsin (a state which also hosted the world premiere of The Wizard of Oz a few weeks before its wide release on the 237th day of 1939, a film which defines the trope we are examining here), while Johnny Depp is of mixed-race heritage. And the mid-point day between the two Wonkas (only one of whom is Jewish) was a key moment in the early history of the Israel/Palestine conflict. The State of Israel had been founded 27 days earlier on 5/14/1948, a date notable for its being exactly 42 weeks after 7/26/1947, the crucial day on which President Harry S Truman signed the 1947 National Security Act, which gave birth to the modern CIA and “military-industrial complex” on paper. This was an infamous Act with global repercussions which, additionally, was signed on the same day that a) Truman’s own Mother, Martha Truman, died, and b) Stanley Kubrick turned 19 years old.
That might seem like a lot to consider all at once, but it’s important context here because another news item on the Wilder-Depp mid-point also concerns Harry S Truman, who spent this same time in what is called “a whirlwind two-day tour of the state of Washington… [which] served as a tune-up for the upcoming presidential campaign.”
What makes finding Truman’s brief stint in Washington here so interesting takes a minute to unwind. It has to do with Truman’s spectral presence in that state, in two different instances. First there is the Harry S Truman who exists fictionally as Sheriff of Twin Peaks, a town located in Washington state. Then there is also the real-life Harry R. Truman who died in his home on Mt. St Helens when she blew on 5/18/1980 (just 2+3 days before The Shining premiered). The existence of a Harry R. Truman dying in Washington state nicely complements the existence of Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks. This existence of Two Harry Trumans in real-life is mirrored by the Two Trumans in Twin Peaks (Harry and Frank), as well as the Two Coopers (Good and Bad), and the Two Wonkas (Wilder and Depp), whose birthdays make up the parent-thesis that led us here.1
No one can say for certain what’s intentional and what’s not in the face of such monstrous complexity. But to find the real Harry S Truman being historically noted as having campaigned in Washington over the same two-day span which serves as the midpoint between the births of the two Wonkas (please note the repeating Ws) would seem to complete a perfect frame at the child position of this particular parent-thesis.
Here might be a good place to mention that the middle initial S in Harry S Truman doesn’t actually stand for anything—nothing except, perhaps, its status as the 19th letter of the alphabet. Recall that Kubrick’s 19th birthday was also the day Truman’s Mother died and the day Truman signed the National Security Act, dooming the country to the next several decades of institutionalized domination by the military-industrial-intelligence complex. Crypto-K seems to indicate a powerful correspondence between Truman and Kubrick—when you measure the time from the birth of Harry S Truman to the birth of Stanley Kubrick, you find it is exactly 2307 weeks—but as far as anyone knows they never met and it would be considered absurd to think they had (although an early assignment for 19-year-old Kubrick as a photographer at a meeting of the United Nations might indicate he wasn’t that far away from certain circles of power, even at a young age).
A little bit more can be drawn from this. Keeping in mind the 2307 weeks between the births of Truman and Kubrick, it’s more than remarkable that Twin Peaks (with Sheriff Harry S Truman) originally premiered on 4/8/1990, because a simple search for show creator David Lynch’s age on this day reveals it to be… 2307 weeks, the exact same length of time between the births of the real Harry S Truman and Stanley Kubrick. In a few more words, the real Harry S Truman on the day Stanley Kubrick appeared was the same age as David Lynch on the day his fictional Harry S Truman appeared! And both keyed to a 237 harmonic. Hoo-ee!
There’s not much more that needs to be said about this for now. Think about it, be amazed by it, but put it aside. These parts of the puzzle will remain off in the corner of the table waiting for their section of the picture to emerge.
There are two more question marks to examine within this preliminary tripartite Wonka-Matrix. First the shorter span between Depp and Musk.
The mid-point of the 420 week span between the births of Johnny Depp and Elon Musk was 6/18/1967.
What stands out here is another 3 day span of June festivities, in this case known as the Monterey Pop Festival which began on 6/16 and ended on 6/18, the Depp/Musk mid-point. Monterey Pop is historically notable for marking the artistic peak of the psychedelic 1960s. This peacefully acid-drenched festival concluded with the first ever US performances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Jimi Hendrix would later join the “27 Club” of rock stars who died at the age of 27 (which is the first number in the ‘+ 42’ sequence shown earlier) on 9/18/1970, which was (strangely enough) exactly 23 years since the CIA opened for business (and as it happens, Willy Wonka and Elon Musk would both debut exactly 9 months, 11 days after Jimi’s death). Phew. Note the co-presence here of Hendrix with 23/W (not forgetting that alphanumerically W = 23)—and “The Who” might even be related to Dr. Who, the infamous time lord who is, let’s face it, basically Willy Wonka with a time machine (he also first appeared on TV less than 24 hours after the death of JFK).
How else does Monterey relate to Depp, Musk, or Willy Wonka? Monterey was a parade of Stars. A Star is a human who shines brightly enough to capture the focus of the all-seeing eye of media (also known as Wikipedia). Willy Wonka, though fictional, is himself a star: a reclusive celebrity who has a great deal of influence over the culture, via his command of the central commodity of life: sugar (he also enjoys a good musical performance in all his iterations). No doubt about it: Willy Wonka is a kind of rock star. Johnny Depp plays Wonka like a mixture of Michael Jackson and Hunter S. Thompson (who, though not a musician, lived rock and roll as a lifestyle well before it went mainstream… good god man…notice how Hunter S Thompson and Harry S Truman have the same initials… is that an accident?), and when he isn’t acting, Depp does fancy himself an actual rock star, having performed on stage with the likes of Keith Richards and Jeff Beck, and fronting a band called the Hollywood Vampires.
On the other side, Elon Musk is, let’s face it, a “rock star” nerd. In fact, he is a “rocket star.” Not merely a celebrity, Musk belongs to that highly exclusive yet still oddly prominent club known as rocket science. Thankfully the practice has applications beyond whatever perverse inclinations lead mankind to such behavior in the first place, but there does seem to be an occult purpose at work behind the practice of launching massive phallic machinery into the sky, and Musk is undoubtedly the number one frontman for that operation in the present day.
So both Elon Musk and Johnny Depp are ‘rock stars,’ with confirmed associations both literal and metaphoric to the (big) rock (candy) star, Willy Wonka, and the mid-point of their births held the calamitous rock-and-roll conclusion of Monterey Pop: The Who destroying their instruments after blowing everybody’s eardrums, trying to follow Hendrix having literally set his guitar on fire. When considered from an extra-temporal perspective and stripped of the idea that History works as A + B + C… on down the line, this Monterey happening could be considered a real-life intrusion of archetypes generated by the twin polarities (or peaks) that was the arrival of persons Johnny Depp and Elon Musk a synchro-charged 420 weeks apart. Or it could be an inversion of that, where the acid-fueled ritualistic electric rock and roll behavior of Monterey generated an arc of etheric energy extending out in both directions, somehow influencing (or merely reflecting) the arrival of Depp and Musk, rock stars of a later era, 210 weeks outward both forward and back.
Or maybe it’s nothing like that at all. Who can say? Here’s the updated picture:
The discussion of Elon Musk as a rocket scientist leads nicely to the final mid-point, a short and sweet conclusion to this opening matrix, the mid-point between the births of Gene Wilder and Elon Musk, aka the mid-point between the birth of Gene Wilder and the premiere of his performance as Willy Wonka. Are you ready?
6/19/1952.
Both previous mid-points’ emphasis on a 3-day window (Arab-Israeli truce and Monterey Pop) perfectly justifies a third here, because it was 2 days before this on 6/17 that an explosion rocked the home of Jack Parsons, infamous occultist and rocket scientist, resulting in his tragic (and suspicious) death. On 6/19, his death hit the papers: his obituary was published in The Pasadena Independent, thus entering his death into the Paper Trail of history. Yes, the same Jack Parsons who has a crater named after him on the Moon, and who studied the works of Aleister Crowley and partnered with L. Ron Hubbard to conceive a “moonchild” in 1946 (a process which began less than 2 weeks before David Lynch was born)—that same Jack Parsons died at the mid-point between the birth of Gene Wilder and the premiere of Willy Wonka (or the day present-times rocket publicist Elon Musk was born).
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The 6/19 obituary notes Parsons as a “handsome 37-year old,” which stands out since in the account of his death, we are told that Parsons actually survived the initial explosion, and died at the hospital approximately 37 minutes later. How old exactly was Parsons when he died? Turns out he was 37 years, 37 weeks old, exactly. That’s two thirty-sevens (237) in his age, if you lost count. If you combine all this with what you might have seen reported by Crypto-K on the site-formerly-known-as Twitter that Parsons’ death on 6/17/1952 came exactly 237 weeks after the death of his magickal mentor, Aleister Crowley—you might begin to see the problem developing here.
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It’s hard to overstate the power in the simple perception of these stubborn facts. You could say Jack Parsons embodied the rock star archetype well before Musk, Depp, Hendrix, or Thompson (though its true origin goes back a ways yet), and of course both he and Musk are rocket scientists (well, Musk pretends), otherwise embodying the Willy Wonka/Dr. Who/Time Lord trope being tracked here, also known as The Wizard.
There’s also the fact that when considered numerologically, the names “Johnny Depp” and “Jack Parsons” are equivalent, as both equal 127 in Standard English Gematria (A=1, B=2...Z=26). That’s pretty incredible. This also happens to be the number of Depp’s character Dean Corso’s apartment in The Ninth Gate, a film written and directed by Roman Polanski, who we’ll see again later, and which premiered, significantly, on the 237th day of the year 1999.
To re-state, the mid-point between the birth of Gene Wilder and the day Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory premiered (also the day SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was born), was the explosive death of occult rocket-scientist “Marvel” Jack Parsons and publication of his obituary.
One could not have invented a more appropriate outcome here if they were trying, and not simply discovering it along the way. Imagine tracing the outline of one of those Norwegian fjords onto a piece of paper and then having someone claim you made it all up. Ridiculous!
So this first W-Matrix now stands complete. Gaze awhile and meditate on the completed picture before moving on: the map will shift and expand, so it helps to remember where you’ve been while we get to where we’re going.
In the light of the above information, you now must admit that it’s more than a little interesting that of all years to do it, the studios chose 2023 as the time to “re-imagine” Willy Wonka and present yet another version of this creepy fairy tale to the masses. Perhaps some producer noticed that W is the 23rd letter, and this is the 23rd year of the Millennium. Are Hollywood producers really that clever? Or are they themselves being used unknowingly as implements to display the prepared pattern? No one can say for certain. But it’s interesting most of all because of what’s also going on this 23rd year specifically with Elon Musk and Johnny Depp.
Elon Musk is having the most important year of his life w/r/t his reputation as he has finally re-branded the website he purchased for $44 billion formerly known as Twitter to “X” (a rebrand launched on the 23rd day of the 7th month of the 23rd year of the Millennium: 2023-07-23), while for his part, Johnny Depp is also in the middle of a big one as he makes his comeback to acting after the sideshow that was The Trial, with a classed up role as King Louis XV in Jeanne du Barry—an Oscar nomination is not out of the question.2 Nevertheless, it feels like with this role as the King of France, Depp aims to re-assert himself in his own role of King of Hollywood, just as Musk hopes to assert his role as King of Social Media.
So, 2023 happens to be a big year for both of these men, who it has already conclusively been proven are connected to Willy Wonka (both ritualistically and literally)—so much so, perhaps? that their combined energies caused a brand new expression of Willy Wonka to appear, even though neither of these men are actually involved with its production. Either that or it’s all an ‘intelligence’ playground, and those folks are even more bored than we know, and this stuff we are finding proves it. Or they, too, are mere unknowing implements for something much grander and more particular in design than any of us ever expected.
Who’s to say? This is all just to communicate some common links between these people (these stars), this character, and the media in which they all appear, in order to justify what’s coming next.
Think of what you just read as the aperitifs. You’re not hammered yet, are you?
In part 2, we move on to the main course. Ready your appetites.
If you recall in the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, Agent Cooper and Sheriff Truman discover a printed letter R under Laura Palmer’s fingernail: the first letter of killer BOB’s name, Robert. In Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, General Jack D. Ripper gives the incorrect radio callsign when he says, “Plan R—R for Robert” (it should be Romeo). In Strangelove “Plan R” is code for a full-on nuclear strike on Russia, while Twin Peaks’s BOB is a demonic parasite that rode in on a wave of interdimensional effluvium in the wake of the USA’s nuclear tests. Meanwhile, Harry S Truman was the man who made the call to drop the Bomb on Japan for real, and Harry R. Truman was blown away on the side of Mt. St. Helens. Maybe that movie The Truman Show has something to do with all of this… … …
Actually, it was.
Elon Musk explained that he bought the Wilder home because it was across the street from his “main” residence and was set to be sold and demolished to make way for a larger, modern mansion. “I was, like, I think I'll buy it and preserve the spirit of Gene Wilder,” he said. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/elon-musk-selling-gene-wilders-quirky-house-stipulation-1293839/#:~:text=Musk%20explained%20that%20he%20bought,Gene%20Wilder%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.