Symbolic Literacy
One root capacity. Four ways of practicing it.
The ability to read meaning — in the body, in time, in pattern, in attention — before it has fully become language.
The Root Capacity
Four literacies. One thing they're all doing.
Pattern Literacy, Temporal Literacy, Somatic Literacy, and Attentional Literacy each read meaning through a different channel — repetition, rhythm, the body, attention. But underneath all four is the same underlying capacity: the ability to recognize that something means, before it's been fully translated into language.
Symbolic literacy is the root. The four literacies are how it's practiced.
Somatic Literacy
Symbolic literacy read through the body — noticing what sensation already knows before interpretation catches up.
Attentional Literacy
Symbolic literacy read through what organizes perception — what repeatedly captures, directs, or holds attention.
Pattern Literacy
Symbolic literacy read through repetition — seeing what recurs across behavior, relationship, and time.
Temporal Literacy
Symbolic literacy read through rhythm — pacing, readiness, transition, and where you are within a larger process.
Where This Becomes Explicit