In the past ten years or so, David Ovason has had ten books published. The
more important titles are listed below.
"This ambitious work looks at the Capitol, the Washington Monument,
city planning, and the numerous zodiacs located throughout the city ...[lt]
contains thorough research and brilliant analysis." LIBRARY JOURNAL.
"The best-qualified writer on the market to ascertain these symbols in
Washington, D.C." THE UNITED SYMBOLISM OF AMERICA.
"Fascinating." WALL STREET JOURNAL.
In THE SECRET ARCHITECTURE OF OUR NATION'S CAPITAL, published
by HarperCollins in 2000, David Ovason reveals the forgotten stellar orientation
of the federal city of the United States of America, as laid down by George
Washington and Pierre Charles L'Enfant, in 1791. In the course of this revelation,
Ovason shows that there are now over fifty zodiacs within the modern city.
This book is the seminal study of the zodiacal structure of the federal
city, and is a work that has been copied widely by a number of inexperienced
authors.
The work has been translated into ten foreign languages: three sample jackets,
from the Brazilian, Russian and Spanish are given below.
In 2009, Random House, which had originally published this work under the
title, The Secret Zodiacs of Washington, D.C. (1999), brought out a new
edition, with a new introduction, under the title, Lost Symbols? The Secrets
of Washington, D.C. The purpose of this book was to draw attention to the
use made by Dan Brown of material in Ovason's book, for his novel, The Lost
Symbol.
The cover page is reproduced below:
"Those interested in Nostradamus' prophecies should forget everything
they've read so far, and begin again here." Janet Bord, THE FORTEAN TIMES.
THE SECRETS OF NOSTRADAMUS was published by HarperCollins
in 2001. The work offers an entirely new approach to the prophetic writings
of Nostradamus. It shows the connexion between his system of dating and
that of the great arcanist, Trithemius, and that the encoding in his quatrains
is rooted in texts derived from the classics.
Ovason reveals Nostradamus' dependency upon the secret Green Language, used
by alchemists and other esoteric workers, for the encoding of certain of
his ideas. A special chapter studies Nostradamus use of dating derived from
his knowledge of astrology.
This book has been translated into twelve foreign languages: below are reproduced
the covers for the Japanese, Czech, German, Polish, Spanish, and Italian.
THE TWO CHILDREN, published by Century in 2001, offers
an account of the ancient belief that there were two Jesus Children involved
in the life of the historical Christ. David Ovason develops this theme with
reference to early texts and artwork, and with special attention to the
importance of the belief among Renaissance artists, such as Raphael, Leonardo
da Vinci and Michelangelo.
At present, a USA edition of the book is in preparation.
"The autobiography of a sorcerer's apprentice ... reads more
like a collaboration between W.B. Yeats and Jorge Luis Borges... this
is one of the most intelligent and interesting books I have read for a
long time." Colin Wilson, LITERARY REVIEW.
 THE ZELATOR.
A MODERN INITIATE EXPLORES THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES was written in
collaboration with Mark Hedsel, and published by Century in 1998: above,
are reproductions of the first hard-back edition of 1998 and the first paperback
of 1999.
The book, which is fully annotated, tells the story of Mark Hedsel's journey
along the path of hermetic wisdom, which involved encounters with initiates
and wise men and women in various parts of the world.
This work has been translated into eight foreign languages: below are the
covers for the Italian, Japanese, United States, Spanish, Polish and German
editions.
 THE
SECRET SYMBOLS OF THE DOLLAR BILL was first published in hardback
by HarperCollins in 2004, followed by a paperback edition in 2005. The text
comprises 100 sections, in which the symbols of the USA dollar bill are
examined and related to their arcane or magical sources. The secret symbolism
of the mottoes, the numerology of the bill, and the arcane symbolism of
both the eagle and truncated pyramid roundels are discussed, against a useful
background of bibliographic notes. Translations into a number of foreign
languages are currently in progress.
Below is the cover for the Japanese edition of the work.
 THE HISTORY
OF THE HOROSCOPE, published by Sutton in 2005, studies the development
of horoscopy from late mediaeval to modern times. The development of personal
horoscopy, in relation to social conditions and scientific beliefs is explored
- for example, Ovason notes the impact of Copernician heliocentricism on
horoscopic charting.
Over one hundred personal charts are reproduced and examined in the light
of the astrological tradition. These charts include those of Richelieu,
Charles I, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Abraham Lincoln and his assassin,
John Wilkes Booth, as well as those of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler,
Jacqueline Kennedy and John Lennon.
 SHAKESPEARE'S
SECRET BOOKE, to be published by Clairview Books in October 2010,
is a study of one of the most important of the Elizabethan and Jacobean
encoding systems, used widely in the art and literature of the period.
Ovason concentrates on a code that Shakespeare made his own, and used widely
in such plays as Hamlet, The Tempest, and Love's Labours Lost.
The code was not unique to Shakespeare, however: David Ovason shows how
it was used to great effect by Nostradamus in his prophetic quatrains, and
by a wide range of poets and writers, working in the realm of alchemy and
Rosicrucianism, including Dr. John Dee and the author of the Chymical Wedding.
Ovason includes a study of the earliest known use of the code in colonial
America, which occurs in George Sandys' translation into English of Ovid's
Metamorphoses.
 At present,
David Ovason is working on his next book, MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS AND
RUDOLF STEINER, due for publication in 2011. In this work, Ovason
studies the encoding techniques of Nostradamus in the prophetic quatrains,
and draws attention to the understanding that Steiner had of this remarkable
sixteenth century prophet. |
