I am interested in this symbol.
See if you can stay with me on this. The bit that interests me is nothing mystical, transcendent or even symbolic, really. Well, not directly.
It’s more a mundane thought about geometry, what the actual shape can suggest if looked at in a certain way.
The omega symbol could be fashioned out of a straight line, one that has been bent around so the ends almost join, but then abruptly turn away from each other. As a straight line, before it is bent, the ends are very far apart, as far apart as they can be.
However, once bent around into the circular omega shape, the ends remain far apart – the full length of the line running around the curve – but are also now very close together, even while they point in opposite directions.
This is mildly (and delightfully) paradoxical: two poles that are simultaneously far apart and close together.