Quatrain II-48 is one that appears to be making a statement about astrological timing. Line two (the secondary theme statement) seems to be saying, “Saturn in Aquarius turning to the fish [Pisces] Mars.” This, of course, means gulping up a whole line of words and then spitting them out as one thought that makes non-astrologers go, “Ho hum. Meaningless to me.” Even those who know a thing or two about astrology miss that “Saturn” is the planet that ruled “Aquarius,” meaning “Saturn” is stronger in that sign. Still, divine Prophecy cannot be read by using normal syntax, including normal astrological lingo.
Here is the French of Nostradamus for quatrain II-48:
La grand copie que passera les montz,
Saturne en l’Arq tournant du poisson Mars :
Venins cachés soubz testes de saulmons,
Leur chief pendu à fil de polemars.
A literal translation of that written can be this:
Here mighty abundance of that will carry over them mountain ones,
Discipline upon him Bend in an arc inclining to it fish Warfare:
Hidden hatreds kept secrets beneath ones heads to asked for my ones,
Their principal hanged with thread of pole war.
Crystal Links shows the following as a syntactical translation of the French into English:
The great force which will pass the mountains.
Saturn in Sagittarius Mars turning from the fish:
Poison hidden under the heads of salmon,
Their war-chief hung with cord.
Erika Cheetham wrote (1973) that the astrological formation listed happened on “17th July 1753,” with it not to happen again until “13th July 2193.” She added (without emphasis) this might be in the Alps. John Hogue (1997) updated the astrology to see the Soviet-Afghan War and the Taliban as a focus, adding a couple of details to support that.
This is the same mistake all people with some knowledge of astrology make, when they see a quatrain like this and think, “I can solve this astrologically.” I made the same mistake when I first started being led to spend the rest of my life looking into The Prophecies of Nostradamus (to some degree or another). To solve this astrologically means to speak the language of astrology fluently, which has nothing to do with where the planets in our solar system are, have been, or will be,
The capitalized La that begins the main theme statement does not say “The.” In normal French is says that, but not in divine Prophecy, where every word comes from the Godhead and has meaning. The is nothing of value in an article that says, A, An,” or “The.” This is profoundly seen when those words are capitalized, like here. The word La must always be read as accented, as Là, making it have importance either as “There” or “Here.” When “Here” is read, this becomes the voice of Nostradamus speaking about France or Western Europe, where he lived. This becomes an important statement that “Here” is where people claim Jesus and God allowed “them” to be “great, mighty, substantial, lofty,” and “high.” This makes “great” be the stuff first-world nations are made of.
The French word copie means “store, plenty,” and “abundance of” (also a “copy” of printed material). The Latin word copia has the same translations but allows for a military translation as “armed troops” or “forces.” This word then fits between two other words, so it plays two ways. First, “great forces” is a characteristic of what makes Christian nations “mighty.” Still, when “armed troops” are relative to “that,” “what” the nations “Here” in Western Europe have, “that” level of “substantial will be passed.” Seeing que pointing to “that” which is “armed troops,” “that will be carrying over” as an invasion “Here” in France, Spain, and Italy. The invasion “forces” will be “them that will surpass them” supposedly defending Western Europe. This will include the “mountain ones.”
The “mountain ones” are the followers of Osama bin Laden, who helped him wage “war” against the Soviet Union and the United States. It is the “mountain ones” that dig the tunnels inside “mountains,” where escape routes and supply depots can be made ready. Still, when the “mountains” are the Pyrenees, which border France and Spain (“Here”), the indigenous people of both France and Spain who are the Basque, are called “mountain men” because their ancient homeland straddles the Pyrenees “Mountains.”
This is then a main theme statement that guides everything else in this quatrain to support that them of a massive invasion of Western Europe, where the “mountain ones” called the Basque will be part of this plan. This then leads to the astrological language of line two (the secondary theme statement), where Saturne, Arq, and Mars are all capitalized, meaning they bear important meaning (which the name of a planet in the solar system does not offer).
The first word is Saturne, which basically means “Discipline,” relative to the language of astrology. That becomes an important statement that this invasion has been planned for a long time, requiring “Patience.” During that “Time” of waiting for opportunity to arise, the “armed forces” will learn their roles and responsibilities through the “Discipline” of military training. This is “Discipline” placed “upon” the commanders of those “forces,” by Osama bin Laden (who is not dead).
This then leads to l’Arq, where the contracted l’ is not an article, but a pronoun, as “him.” The word Arq must be read as a contraction of Arque, which means an “Arch” of to “Bend in an arc.” This becomes important because the plan of “him” is to have an invasion of three Western European nations (“Here”) be in an “Arc” that “Bends” from the toe of Italy around to the Strait of Gibraltar. In such an expansive “Arch,” many millions of participants will have the “Discipline” to know where each will enter “in” as invading “forces.”
This then used the word tournant, which can mean “turning” but also “inclining.” This says a surprise attack will take the defending militaries of the three invaded nations unprepared and without “Discipline.” It will be then “turning” away from the invaders in a run for shelter and safety. What they will not expect (like the Basque “mountain men” being on the side of Muslims) is the many millions of illegal Muslim immigrants that have all swam like little lost “fish” in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, where they will be given a place in Western European nations (“Here”) to remain self-restricted. Those will be “Here” for one purpose, which importantly is waiting for “War” to break out. All those running Western European “forces” will be running away from invading soldiers, into illegal Muslims that will become armed and dangerous, when “Warfare” comes.
The secondary theme statement ends with a colon, meaning line three will offer clarification or examples of this “War.” This is then explained importantly as being “Poisons” or “Hidden hatreds” (metaphorically), which have been “kept secret ones” by those suddenly appearing with weapons, ready to kill. This will be rooted in “underlying” issues and go to the “bottom of the thing” that is Israel having been given Palestine, with the Western world justifying that as it was won fair and square in a war between Jews and Arabs. Using the same rationale, there should be nothing the Western Europeans can say if the Muslims win fair and square by suddenly invading them will many millions of soul-enraged seekers of justice. The plan is to take Europe from Europeans and let it be the land of Muslims, Basques and Eastern European Communists.
That becomes the reasoning of “heads” that are not connected to a soul and much less to the divine influence of Jesus. This means Western Europeans will be like those of ole King Saul, who the prophet Samuel told he was on his own, because he turned away from Yahweh and did what Yahweh said not to do. This makes saulmons divide into saul mons, where the name meaning of Saul is “asked for.” Just like Saul got what he cause to come, so too will false Christians find they are not as “Mighty” as their false governments led “them” to believe.
The word mons then refers to “my ones,” which is the voice of Nostradamus again, speaking of the French and Europeans, while it is also the voice of Jesus within Nostradamus, where “my ones” is a statement about those claiming to be Christians, which doing nothing Christian.
With that explanation of what “Warfare” will bring to Western Europe (and elsewhere, detailed in many other quatrains), the word of importance is “Their,” which is a possessive pronoun, which plays off the possessive “my ones.” This points to “Their chief” as the one man who will have planned and organized this major End Times invasion that will be seeking to avenge the pains that the West “asked for,” by refusing to listen to Muslim complaints (verbally and through terrorism). The “chief” or “principal” leader is Osama bin Laden (maybe he swam from the Indian Ocean?), who will seek to have the leaders of Western governments “hanged” and “dangled,” just as the Italians did to the dictator Benito Mussolini and his wife, when the allied “forces” liberated the people. Still, the “line” or “thread” that will be “dangled” before the Iranians, when Osama bin Laden was recuperating “There” after escaping Tora Bora, are nuclear weapons. The Soviet-Russians will have sold Osama bin Laden’s backers all the nuclear missile they need to end life on earth as we know it. This will then be “of polemars,” which is another word like saulmons, in need of rearrangement to solve.
This word divides into pole mars, which means “pole warfare.” When one sees how l’Arq is translated by Crystal Links as “Sagittarius,” which is “the Archer.” The Latin word Sagitta means “Arrow,” with Sagittarius meaning “of Arrow” or “Archer,” such that the instrument used to make “an Arrow” dangerous is a “Bow,” which places tension of a “line” connecting two ends of a “Bended” pieced of wood, such that an “Archer” “Bends in an arc” the bow, which then releases the “Arrow.” Thus the “pole” is the “Arrow” or missile “upon” which a “warhead” is placed, so it can be fired at an enemy. This then says the time of “pole war” will be executed in a most horrific number.
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