As an astrologer, I was interested in The Prophecies of Nostradamus because he wrote astrological terms. Between 1976 and September 11, 2001, I could not make any of the astrological references I saw have any significant meaning. After the events of September 11, 2001, I began to look deeper at how the astrology he wrote could be timing events in the future. I poured over an ephemeris and lo and behold, I saw a repetitiveness in those planetary combinations, which was placing everything into rapid series of timings that made 2003 and 2006 very important.
I wrote a book that had a title like Nostradamus’ Timing of the Future, which I never published. I did run off five copies (this was like 250 pages per manuscript) at Kinkos [ask your parents children]. I was invited to speak to a local astrological group [something most locals do not have] and was well received. I sold all five manuscripts at a little above cost.
Well, none of what I wrote was correct, as far as using the astrological text as a secret code to unravel. My work between the years 2003 and 2006 brought me a deeper understanding of what I was being led to learn, a little bit at a time. I had to learn the valuable lesson that astrology is a language.
Around 2011, I came up with a presentation that I entitled The Astrology of Nostradamus. I contacted three different astrological groups, and each welcomed me to come to make a presentation. I adjusted the slideshow after each presentation, based on where the audience (mostly novices interested in astrology, with no deep understanding) seemed to struggle. The final presentation seemed to be the best received, with one woman posting a review that said, “I wish we could have had another two hours.” I believe she sincerely meant that.
The point I wanted to make is plain and simple: Astrology is a language. It is like any other language, in it requires fluency to properly understand. To read astrological names of planets, signs, and aspects is much more than what is read on the surface. One needs to have a fluency that begins an in-depth conversation that ponders, “You said this. Do you mean this, or are you meaning that?” Without that, one becomes like I was, a fan of astrology and wanting to think I knew what Nostradamus meant by using the language of astrology. It is the lesson of the question: Do you know what happens when you assume? [Email me if you do not know the answer.]
I have made a list of the terms written in the quatrains that can be seen as astrological. Here is a list of words and the number of times found in verses:
Aries – 4…………………………………………………………………………Libra – 3
Taurus – 3………………………………………………………………………Scorpio – 1
Gemini – 0……………………………………………………………………..Sagittarius – 3 (all symbolically as l’Arq)
Cancer – 7……………………………………………………………………..Capricorn – 1 (plus 2 cap. abb. possible, Cap. & Caper.)
Leo – 6 (27 more if Lyon as French form Latin)………Aquarius – 4 (all symbolically as l’Urn)
Virgo – 7 (+4 others as Vesta or vestal-vestales)……Pisces – 1 (in lower-case)
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Mercury – 11……………………………………………………….Moon – 10 (+3 forms of lunaire, &5 var. of Artimide &Latona)
Venus – 16…………………………………………………………..Sun – 14 (as Soleil, plus 24 as Sol)
Mars – 40…………………………………………………………….Pluto – 0
Jupiter – 7……………………………………………………………Neptune – 6 (plus 2 as l’Ocean)
Saturn – 21 (plus 2 abbreviated)…………………….Uranus – 0
With that found in the quatrains, this is what is found in the two letters Nostradamus published with those poems (the Preface and the Epistle to Henry II)
Aquarius – 4 (in both letters)……………………………………………Scorpio – 1 (Henry)
Cancer – 1 (Preface)………………………………………………………….Neptune – 1 (Henry)
Capricorn – 2 (both Henry)……………………………………………..Pisces – 2 (both Henry)
Libra – 1 (Henry)
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Jupiter – 6 (all Henry)……………………………………………………….Saturn – 6 (both letters)
Moon (as Lune) – 4 (in both letters)………………………………Sun (as Soleil) – 5 (both letters)Scorpio
Mercury – 4 (all Henry)……………………………………………………..Venus – 2 (both Henry)
Mars – 8 (both letters)
It is important to realize that the solar system (in 1555-1558) consisted of five planets and the Sun and Moon (seven orbs total). The twelve signs of the zodiac were astrologically calculated, meaning it was tropical, not sidereal. The lack of mention for Uranus and Pluto can easily be explained as they were ‘outer planets,’ which were detected many years after Nostradamus died, using a telescope. That means the references to Neptune (or the Ocean, as the Titan Oceanus) could have had no astrological application; and that is important to realize.
The most frequently written astrological term was Mars (48, including quatrains and letters), which was the name of the god of War. This makes “War” be the often-written word, metaphorically as Mars. The second most frequent word is Saturn, which was written 27 times (21 quatrains, 6 letters). The Sun seems to be next, but when Sol is seen as a French word meaning “Soil, Ground, Land, Foundation, or the Bottom of a place,” the Sun’s 14 times (as Soleil) equates to that many references to the Moon, when all the metaphor leading to that is added together.
As for Venus, which appears 16 times in the quatrains and 2 more in the Epistle to Henry, this word is the plural past participle of the verb Venir, which can be read importantly (capitalization) as “Came ones.” Thus, when the language of astrology is seen as using verbiage that will make people think one way, when the truth is the other way, a purposefully confusing use of verbiage is meant to have people try and figure out a brain teaser, lasting centuries.
In this regard, Nostradamus wrote (page 8 of the Henry letter):
Mais l’injure du temps ô serenissime Roy requiert que telz secretz evenemens ne soyent manifestez, que par ænigmatique sentence, n’ayant que un seul sens, & unique intelligence, sans y avoir rien mis d’ambigue ne emphibologique calculation
This translates to state :
But the injury to the times oh most-serene King required that such ones secrets not having manifested ones, that by reason of enigmatic sentence, not having that one alone understanding, & unique intelligence, without here to have anything put with ambiguous not amphibologic calculation :
That sums up what the language of astrology is, while also explaining the whole of The Prophecies is “enigmatic sentence,” with multiple possible meaning (all valid), which importantly demands one be divinely possessed (with the soul of Jesus) so “unique intelligence” allows “understanding.” Without that divine guidance, everything will seem “ambiguous” and intentionally written to lead to wrong conclusions (“amphibological calculation”).
With this understanding, let me conclude by displaying what I believe was exciting to those who attended my presentations. It involves what Nostradamus wrote in his Preface.
The underlined text states (separated by marks of punctuation and symbols) states this in English:
& this in as much as with the evident understanding celestial,
that yet ones who us should be at the seventh number of a thousand which concluded the whole,
we approaching to the eighth,
where is the firmament of the eighth sphere,
that is in measuring latitudinary,
“laditudinarian” (Word Origin 1697) – synonymous with: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical (Princeton University, Farlex Inc.)
This is a prediction of the discovery of the planet Uranus, where the known solar system of Nostradamus (thus astrology) had seven spheres (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). AND it is prophesying that Uranus (well after discovery) will not rotate like all the other planets in the solar system.
Uranus was discovered by Herschel on March 13, 1781
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery of new moons and rings, baffling new mysteries confronted scientists. (Google Ai Overview)
As such, its north and south poles lie where most other planets have their equators [Wikipedia] – Latitudinal axis, as “north and south” is the same (top/bottom) for all planets.
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