Watching The Sky

The Masonic Lodge is aligned in the ancient tradition of Enoch and the stone henges. The winter soltice is aligned with the northeastern piller of Jachin and the summer soltice is aligned with the southeastern Boaz piller.

The ancient Asherah is used and held by the Senior Deacon who escorts the candidate through his 1st degree, for example, which begins on the summer soltice.

The asherah is a measuring 'wand' which is used to determine the angles of the sunrise and sunset indicated by the shadows it casts from the vertically held staf. The WM sits on the Vernal equinox or the Autumn equinox and the Venus alignment which is directly in the East. The word east means 'rise' in Latin.

In the Lodge room, the five-pointed star is Venus which moves around the blazing sun at the center of the room at noon. In the heavens Venus moves around the sun, which is the center of our universe as seen from earth. At Noon there is no shadow cast on earth at the proper latitude and longitude. On the equinox the shadow aligned perfectly at sun rise and sun set to form a straight line. God is represented in the center of the sun, as everything revolves around him.

Most candidates do not know the symbolism or understand the signifiance of this ancient rite and it takes years of study to understand the full meaning. Each point in the room has a meaning associated with the equinoxes and rising light of Venus at that point in the cycle.