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Symbol for Dragon’s Head and Tail - Nodes of the Moon

Ovason drew up a horoscope for the date on which this Federal Lodge was granted its charter. He
states:

“I imagine that the petition must have been presented shortly after teatime, when the Moon was still
in Virgo. That meant that the chart had three planets (Sun, Moon, and Mercury) in Virgo, along with
the Dragon’s Head, the Caput draconis.”

Even as we observed that “the headquarters of the American revolution” was a building called the
Green Dragon Tavern, we find that the influence of the dragon continues to have great significance
in the founding of the nation’s capital city, its chief buildings, and the first Federal Lodge of
Freemasonry.

The laying of the Capitol building cornerstone was a major event, widely publicized, and attended
by a great crowd of people. According to Ovason and other sources, the event included the roasting
of a 500 pound ox. This is reminiscent of ancient sacrifices to Baal.

I Kings 18:25
So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are
many, and call on the name of your god...”

Once more Ovason provides insight into the horoscope cast for the date of the Capitol building
dedication.

“Shortly before midday, Jupiter was rising in Scorpio (Jupiter also was rising on the day that the first
marker stone was ceremonially placed in the capital city.)... In the Capitol chart, however, there is
emphasis on Virgo which, with good reason, we have begun to expect in horoscopes relating to the
federal city. The Sun and Mercury are in Virgo, as is the Dragon’s Head.”

Skipping forward some 55 years we arrive at the date in which the cornerstone for the Washington
Monument was laid, July 4, 1848. Ovason provides the following insight.

“As I have indicated, probably one reason why the Masons chose to lay the stone in the afternoon was
because they wished to allow the all-important Virgo to become operative in the chart. Shortly before