| The Astrology of Nostradamus |
by Robert Tippett
Nostradamus was a very gifted astrologer. This is evidenced by his production of yearly
Almanachs that were based on astrological aspects, and which were deemed highly
accurate by the people that read them. The similarity between the Almanachs and The
Prophecies is found in the use of quatrains (4-line verses); but, where the Almanachs
numbered 13 per yearly publication, The Prophecies seemed to hold a hundred years
worth of predictions, as the final edition held close to 1,000 predictions. The assumption
was that they were all astrologically based, meaning people believed Nostradamus
calculated them through his knowledge of astrology. However, this astrological focus of
Nostradamus' later life, from which he drew great renown, needs to be prefaced by his
earlier life.
In Nostradamus' early life, he attended the university at Montpellier to study medicine.
Granted, medicine in the early 1500's was not like it is today; but, as an intern
Nostradamus went out to help the people of France, who at that time were severely
stricken by widespread plague outbreaks. Nostradamus did not fear entering these places
where the only previous treatment was isolation and quarantine. From that time of
disease, Nostradamus came away with great respect from the French people and the
reputation of a healer.
While it has been shown by some researchers that Nostradamus never possessed an
official medical doctorate (he was an apothecary, later publishing a book of medicinal
recipes using herbs and plants), and his wife and young son died of the plague (proving he
had no super healing powers), the point of this early life experience is that it shows that
Nostradamus wanted to help people. Learning the arts of medicine was a way to help both
those needing medical care, and those teaching it.
There is documented evidence that Nostradamus studied to be an M.D., after being
expelled from Montpellier, under a close friend and professor of medicine. Also, when
Catherine de Medici was the Regent over France, following King Henry II's accidental
death, she appointed Nostradamus as a "physician-in-ordinary," meaning he was
recognized as capable of treating the queen and he royal children.
The fact that one man could only save so many lives, through knowledge of 16th Century
medicine, is possibly why Nostradamus turned to astrology as a way to help people. He
was just as renowned for his medical healing as he was with his prophetic predictions,
those regularly published and based on astrology. In both cases, Nostradamus offered his
services for the good of the people.
The present view of astrology is rooted in this critical period of the 16th Century, as the
Renaissance was on the verge of making remarkable new discoveries that would eventually
make the old ways embarrassingly obsolete. One of those old ways was astrology; but, it
was not proven obsolete, as much as it was seen as witchcraft.
Witchcraft was basically a distinction made by the Catholic Church, which covered
everything the Church did not understand and could not explain. While the Church had a
prior hatred for astrology, and would return to that after Nostradamus' death, several
popes during the mid-16th century were actually very close to Nostradamus. They
sponsored his writings and publications, because of the success he had proven with his
astrologically based Almanachs.
The Church wanted Nostradamus to train some of its key personnel in this art, so that they
would be able to see the future just as clearly as Nostradamus. Unfortunately, a
combination of those astrologers-to-be not being able to master that art as well as
Nostradamus, and Nostradamus not being able to explain The Prophecies in a clear and
intelligent manner, after he had everyone scratching their heads, is part of why the Romans
decided to again ban astrology from the "preferred status" list. In other words, if
Nostradamus had not written The Prophecies in a way that made them impossible to
understand (they were not about those times, thus not to be understood until the right time
came around), then we might have the luxury of studying Astrology for degrees in our
major universities today, just as we study Astronomy. However, because Nostradamus
wrote The Prophecies as instructed by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, unintelligible to protect
the Church, Nostradamus was seen by the Church as demonically possessed and
astrology, simply as something Nostradamus knew, was made taboo to all Catholics as
well.
Today, no scientist knows anything about astrology, because they took the Church's word
that astrology was bogus. Everything the Church said it believed in, Science went out to
disprove; but astrology was discounted because Science could not explain it, regardless of
what the Church believed. To this day, scientists feel absolutely comfortable discounting
astrology, with only vague concepts of what the art entails.
Anyone that actually takes the time to study astrology - and since the 1970's there has
been a growing number of these people - one realizes that there is much more to astrology
than realized before looking into it deeper. Astrology is actually more of a science than is
psychology, with both better defined as arts that deal with the issues of mind. However,
astrology uses a mathematical basis, calculating planetary movements and the aspectral
relationships that come in those movements, as reason to project a conclusion.
Psychology uses statistics to come up with heuristic projections, rather than conclusions.
The reason that no one understood the meaning of The Prophecies is that Jesus Christ
required them to be written in a mysterious way. As the time to understand is now, a
systemic approach to reading The Prophecies makes them understandable. One of the
ways that helps provide the timing framework for the story is the astrological wording,
which can translate as astronomical planetary placements. Those placements can be
analyzed as mathematically fixed positions of planets in space, which yields timings that
are quite specific, even when cyclic and repeating. Thus, through the astrological verbiage
of Nostradamus, a time-line has then been stated in The Prophecies by Jesus Christ. This
makes what is revealed quite important to know.
In the quatrains of The Prophecies there are over 60 that state astrological words. Some
of these words are unrecognizable to modern astrologers, because they are now seen as
archaic and rarely used. Understanding a more traditional view of astrology has helped me
understand the meaning of those clues, which becomes vital in establishing a time-line of
the period covered by this prophecy.
Of all 948 quatrains in The Prophecies, only 1 has 5 lines (remember, quatrain means
4-line verse). That one "quatrain" is the only one written wholly in Latin; and, it is the
only one that has an entire line (the first line) written in all-capital letters. In essence, it is a
quatrain with an important heading. That "quatrain" is found placed in the 100th position
of Century number VI; but, it is actually the very first quatrain to be read in the epic poem
that they all create.
The all-caps line is a clear heading and the four lines that follow are telling who should not
attempt to read the verses, because they will be the last to see the meaning. On line three,
Nostradamus wrote what can be translated as "Astrology Idiots." This not only means
anyone that does not know astrology, but it also means those that think they know
astrology, but don't. If your knowledge of astrology is such that you only know how it
works with the modern discoveries - Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - included, then you
should best let me do this work for you, because you won't be able to understand.
In my experience with astrology, and in particular with people that claim to known
astrology or want to know, I admit that the greatest majority are women. Maybe its the
Pandora's Box syndrome, where women are more inquisitive about things most people say
"stay away from that!" Still, I must also admit that the great majority are non-religious,
with many just plain pagan. By "pagan," I mean they express belief that some form of
deities exist, but usually these are all female and a Christian God is ridiculed. This is how
astrology maintains a bad rap, and why it has been sorted into the "crazy crap" section of
mainstream book stores.
Well, in Nostradamus' Letter to Henry II, where he explained everything about his book
and then some, the then some included the revelation that Jesus Christ let him see all
times, from the creation of Adam, to the end of the mankind. In this section of the letter,
Nostradamus recounted all of the years of the Patriarchs of the Bible. When he got to
Abraham, he made a startling announcement that (paraphrasing) God gave Abraham the
tool that is astrology, as a guide to help mankind.
Now, if you read the Old Testament, you find out two important things. One, the biblical
story of Abraham begins when he was 80 years old. Two, when God first encountered
Abraham (as documented in the Book of Genesis), God told him (then named Abram) to
move from Chaldea. According to the history of astrology, the first known archaeological
evidence of astrology dates back to the Chaldean people. This means astrology was
practiced by pagan peoples, who did not know of the One God, except for Abram. Still,
as Nostradamus explained, there was no better astrologer than Abraham.
As this letter was also from the Spirit of Jesus Christ, it says that astrology is God's gift to
mankind. It also (more indirectly) says that the best astrologers are those led by God to
gain insight, as was Nostradamus. He gave full credit to his astrological accuracy as
coming from his willingness to set aside "cookbook astrology" (going by the book of
astrological heuristics) and listen to his "inner angel." This says the astrology of
Nostradamus was on a spiritual level, led by the One God and belief in Jesus Christ. This
can only be debated in a "believe in God - don't believe in God" argument. However, I
believe what Nostradamus said, mainly because I have always felt that astrology is a gift
and it fully supports a need for religion in one's life.
Finally, when I first realized the astrological time line in Nostradamus' quatrains, I also
realized the cyclic nature of the planets. Any one aspect can repeat infinitely. So, I
charted a time line that stretched out 600 years and plotted all of the possibilities. The
result was a graph that had randomly scattered plots on two ends of the 600 year time-line,
but a solid line of dots between 1900 and 2010 (thicker between 2000 and 2010). I spoke
on three occasions to astrological associations about this time line and how it clearly
identified our times as the point of reference, about the end of the world. But, since that
time I have been able to make sense of the Letter to Henry II, and in that letter there is a
section that lists as specifically as possible a series of aspects that do not repeat so often.
Those are yearly, over a ten year period, between 2016 and 2025. This ten year period is
clearly the time when the end of the world is predicted to come. Now, if we wait till then
to see it happen, we just proved that God does exist. Conversely, we will also have
proved that we just lost our souls to an eternity in Hell, for waiting for that time to come
and not acting. The point of the astrology is to time when we have to act to benefit
ourselves. It is to our benefit tosave the planet, to save our lives and to save our souls.
Now is the time to admit that Jesus Christ is indeed the Son of God and start living the
way He told us to live, according to the Apostles. It only means living with peace in our
hearts and letting that peace spread to everyone around us. How hard is that?
Almanachs that were based on astrological aspects, and which were deemed highly
accurate by the people that read them. The similarity between the Almanachs and The
Prophecies is found in the use of quatrains (4-line verses); but, where the Almanachs
numbered 13 per yearly publication, The Prophecies seemed to hold a hundred years
worth of predictions, as the final edition held close to 1,000 predictions. The assumption
was that they were all astrologically based, meaning people believed Nostradamus
calculated them through his knowledge of astrology. However, this astrological focus of
Nostradamus' later life, from which he drew great renown, needs to be prefaced by his
earlier life.
In Nostradamus' early life, he attended the university at Montpellier to study medicine.
Granted, medicine in the early 1500's was not like it is today; but, as an intern
Nostradamus went out to help the people of France, who at that time were severely
stricken by widespread plague outbreaks. Nostradamus did not fear entering these places
where the only previous treatment was isolation and quarantine. From that time of
disease, Nostradamus came away with great respect from the French people and the
reputation of a healer.
While it has been shown by some researchers that Nostradamus never possessed an
official medical doctorate (he was an apothecary, later publishing a book of medicinal
recipes using herbs and plants), and his wife and young son died of the plague (proving he
had no super healing powers), the point of this early life experience is that it shows that
Nostradamus wanted to help people. Learning the arts of medicine was a way to help both
those needing medical care, and those teaching it.
There is documented evidence that Nostradamus studied to be an M.D., after being
expelled from Montpellier, under a close friend and professor of medicine. Also, when
Catherine de Medici was the Regent over France, following King Henry II's accidental
death, she appointed Nostradamus as a "physician-in-ordinary," meaning he was
recognized as capable of treating the queen and he royal children.
The fact that one man could only save so many lives, through knowledge of 16th Century
medicine, is possibly why Nostradamus turned to astrology as a way to help people. He
was just as renowned for his medical healing as he was with his prophetic predictions,
those regularly published and based on astrology. In both cases, Nostradamus offered his
services for the good of the people.
The present view of astrology is rooted in this critical period of the 16th Century, as the
Renaissance was on the verge of making remarkable new discoveries that would eventually
make the old ways embarrassingly obsolete. One of those old ways was astrology; but, it
was not proven obsolete, as much as it was seen as witchcraft.
Witchcraft was basically a distinction made by the Catholic Church, which covered
everything the Church did not understand and could not explain. While the Church had a
prior hatred for astrology, and would return to that after Nostradamus' death, several
popes during the mid-16th century were actually very close to Nostradamus. They
sponsored his writings and publications, because of the success he had proven with his
astrologically based Almanachs.
The Church wanted Nostradamus to train some of its key personnel in this art, so that they
would be able to see the future just as clearly as Nostradamus. Unfortunately, a
combination of those astrologers-to-be not being able to master that art as well as
Nostradamus, and Nostradamus not being able to explain The Prophecies in a clear and
intelligent manner, after he had everyone scratching their heads, is part of why the Romans
decided to again ban astrology from the "preferred status" list. In other words, if
Nostradamus had not written The Prophecies in a way that made them impossible to
understand (they were not about those times, thus not to be understood until the right time
came around), then we might have the luxury of studying Astrology for degrees in our
major universities today, just as we study Astronomy. However, because Nostradamus
wrote The Prophecies as instructed by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, unintelligible to protect
the Church, Nostradamus was seen by the Church as demonically possessed and
astrology, simply as something Nostradamus knew, was made taboo to all Catholics as
well.
Today, no scientist knows anything about astrology, because they took the Church's word
that astrology was bogus. Everything the Church said it believed in, Science went out to
disprove; but astrology was discounted because Science could not explain it, regardless of
what the Church believed. To this day, scientists feel absolutely comfortable discounting
astrology, with only vague concepts of what the art entails.
Anyone that actually takes the time to study astrology - and since the 1970's there has
been a growing number of these people - one realizes that there is much more to astrology
than realized before looking into it deeper. Astrology is actually more of a science than is
psychology, with both better defined as arts that deal with the issues of mind. However,
astrology uses a mathematical basis, calculating planetary movements and the aspectral
relationships that come in those movements, as reason to project a conclusion.
Psychology uses statistics to come up with heuristic projections, rather than conclusions.
The reason that no one understood the meaning of The Prophecies is that Jesus Christ
required them to be written in a mysterious way. As the time to understand is now, a
systemic approach to reading The Prophecies makes them understandable. One of the
ways that helps provide the timing framework for the story is the astrological wording,
which can translate as astronomical planetary placements. Those placements can be
analyzed as mathematically fixed positions of planets in space, which yields timings that
are quite specific, even when cyclic and repeating. Thus, through the astrological verbiage
of Nostradamus, a time-line has then been stated in The Prophecies by Jesus Christ. This
makes what is revealed quite important to know.
In the quatrains of The Prophecies there are over 60 that state astrological words. Some
of these words are unrecognizable to modern astrologers, because they are now seen as
archaic and rarely used. Understanding a more traditional view of astrology has helped me
understand the meaning of those clues, which becomes vital in establishing a time-line of
the period covered by this prophecy.
Of all 948 quatrains in The Prophecies, only 1 has 5 lines (remember, quatrain means
4-line verse). That one "quatrain" is the only one written wholly in Latin; and, it is the
only one that has an entire line (the first line) written in all-capital letters. In essence, it is a
quatrain with an important heading. That "quatrain" is found placed in the 100th position
of Century number VI; but, it is actually the very first quatrain to be read in the epic poem
that they all create.
The all-caps line is a clear heading and the four lines that follow are telling who should not
attempt to read the verses, because they will be the last to see the meaning. On line three,
Nostradamus wrote what can be translated as "Astrology Idiots." This not only means
anyone that does not know astrology, but it also means those that think they know
astrology, but don't. If your knowledge of astrology is such that you only know how it
works with the modern discoveries - Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - included, then you
should best let me do this work for you, because you won't be able to understand.
In my experience with astrology, and in particular with people that claim to known
astrology or want to know, I admit that the greatest majority are women. Maybe its the
Pandora's Box syndrome, where women are more inquisitive about things most people say
"stay away from that!" Still, I must also admit that the great majority are non-religious,
with many just plain pagan. By "pagan," I mean they express belief that some form of
deities exist, but usually these are all female and a Christian God is ridiculed. This is how
astrology maintains a bad rap, and why it has been sorted into the "crazy crap" section of
mainstream book stores.
Well, in Nostradamus' Letter to Henry II, where he explained everything about his book
and then some, the then some included the revelation that Jesus Christ let him see all
times, from the creation of Adam, to the end of the mankind. In this section of the letter,
Nostradamus recounted all of the years of the Patriarchs of the Bible. When he got to
Abraham, he made a startling announcement that (paraphrasing) God gave Abraham the
tool that is astrology, as a guide to help mankind.
Now, if you read the Old Testament, you find out two important things. One, the biblical
story of Abraham begins when he was 80 years old. Two, when God first encountered
Abraham (as documented in the Book of Genesis), God told him (then named Abram) to
move from Chaldea. According to the history of astrology, the first known archaeological
evidence of astrology dates back to the Chaldean people. This means astrology was
practiced by pagan peoples, who did not know of the One God, except for Abram. Still,
as Nostradamus explained, there was no better astrologer than Abraham.
As this letter was also from the Spirit of Jesus Christ, it says that astrology is God's gift to
mankind. It also (more indirectly) says that the best astrologers are those led by God to
gain insight, as was Nostradamus. He gave full credit to his astrological accuracy as
coming from his willingness to set aside "cookbook astrology" (going by the book of
astrological heuristics) and listen to his "inner angel." This says the astrology of
Nostradamus was on a spiritual level, led by the One God and belief in Jesus Christ. This
can only be debated in a "believe in God - don't believe in God" argument. However, I
believe what Nostradamus said, mainly because I have always felt that astrology is a gift
and it fully supports a need for religion in one's life.
Finally, when I first realized the astrological time line in Nostradamus' quatrains, I also
realized the cyclic nature of the planets. Any one aspect can repeat infinitely. So, I
charted a time line that stretched out 600 years and plotted all of the possibilities. The
result was a graph that had randomly scattered plots on two ends of the 600 year time-line,
but a solid line of dots between 1900 and 2010 (thicker between 2000 and 2010). I spoke
on three occasions to astrological associations about this time line and how it clearly
identified our times as the point of reference, about the end of the world. But, since that
time I have been able to make sense of the Letter to Henry II, and in that letter there is a
section that lists as specifically as possible a series of aspects that do not repeat so often.
Those are yearly, over a ten year period, between 2016 and 2025. This ten year period is
clearly the time when the end of the world is predicted to come. Now, if we wait till then
to see it happen, we just proved that God does exist. Conversely, we will also have
proved that we just lost our souls to an eternity in Hell, for waiting for that time to come
and not acting. The point of the astrology is to time when we have to act to benefit
ourselves. It is to our benefit tosave the planet, to save our lives and to save our souls.
Now is the time to admit that Jesus Christ is indeed the Son of God and start living the
way He told us to live, according to the Apostles. It only means living with peace in our
hearts and letting that peace spread to everyone around us. How hard is that?
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