| 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 either
a thousand years or 1,000 verses of astrological predictions. In either case, the
assumption was that they were astrologically based. But, this astrological focus of
Nostradamus' later life, from which he drew great renown, needs to be prefaced by his
earlier life.
Nostradamus' early life, he attended a university 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 known 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 degreed as an
apothecary and he published a book on medicinal 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.
There is documented evidence that Nostradamus studied to be an M.D., under a close
friend and professor of medicine, although he was not officially an enrolled student at
that university. Also, when Catherine de Medici was the Regent over France,
following King Henry II's accidental death, she appointed Nostradamus as a Royal
Physician. The fact that one man can only save so many lives through 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, 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 these was astrology;
but, it was not proven obsolete, it was seen as witchcraft. Witchcraft was basically a
distinction made by the Catholic Church; and, the Catholic Church sponsored some of
the scientifically accepted researchers of those days, like Mendel. The Church was
actually very close to Nostradamus, helping sponsor him, 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. If Nostradamus had never written
The Prophecies we might all be studying Astrology for degrees in our major
universities today, just as we study Astronomy. However, because Nostradamus
wrote The Prophecies for Jesus Christ, in a way that no one could understand,
especially the Church, Nostradamus was seen by the Church as demonically possessed
and astrology was made taboo to all Catholics. Today, no scientist knows a thing
about astrology, but they feel absolutely comfortable discounting it, 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 they had ever known before.
Astrology is actually more of a science than is psychology, because it deals with the
same issues of mind, but does so from a mathematical approach of calculating
planetary movements and aspectral relationships that come in those movements.
The reason that no one understood the meaning of The Prophecies is that Jesus Christ
required them to be written in a mysterious way. However, one of the ways that
provides the framework for the story, once the systematic methods unlock the
meaning is the astrological wording, which translates as astronomical planetary
placements. Those placements are mathematically fixed positions that are quite
specific. The time line has then been stated by Jesus Christ, by the use of astrological
wording. This makes what I will reveal on the following page 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 (5
have questioned authenticity), 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. That "quatrain" is
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 only knows how it works with 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 seeming great
majority are non-religious or just plain pagan. This is how astrology maintains a bad
rap, because it has been sorted into the "crazy crap" section of the book store. 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 Patriarch's of the Bible. When
he got to Abraham, he made a startling announcement: 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, the time before God first encountered Abraham (in the
Bible), when God told Abraham to move, he told him to move from Chaldea.
According to the history of astrology, the first known evidence of astrology dates back
to the Chaldean people. As this letter was also written under the watchful eye of Jesus
Christ, this says that astrology is God's gift to mankind; and, this can only be debated
in the believe in God - don't believe in God argument. Again, 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. These 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.
However, 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 save 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?
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 either
a thousand years or 1,000 verses of astrological predictions. In either case, the
assumption was that they were astrologically based. But, this astrological focus of
Nostradamus' later life, from which he drew great renown, needs to be prefaced by his
earlier life.
Nostradamus' early life, he attended a university 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 known 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 degreed as an
apothecary and he published a book on medicinal 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.
There is documented evidence that Nostradamus studied to be an M.D., under a close
friend and professor of medicine, although he was not officially an enrolled student at
that university. Also, when Catherine de Medici was the Regent over France,
following King Henry II's accidental death, she appointed Nostradamus as a Royal
Physician. The fact that one man can only save so many lives through 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, 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 these was astrology;
but, it was not proven obsolete, it was seen as witchcraft. Witchcraft was basically a
distinction made by the Catholic Church; and, the Catholic Church sponsored some of
the scientifically accepted researchers of those days, like Mendel. The Church was
actually very close to Nostradamus, helping sponsor him, 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. If Nostradamus had never written
The Prophecies we might all be studying Astrology for degrees in our major
universities today, just as we study Astronomy. However, because Nostradamus
wrote The Prophecies for Jesus Christ, in a way that no one could understand,
especially the Church, Nostradamus was seen by the Church as demonically possessed
and astrology was made taboo to all Catholics. Today, no scientist knows a thing
about astrology, but they feel absolutely comfortable discounting it, 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 they had ever known before.
Astrology is actually more of a science than is psychology, because it deals with the
same issues of mind, but does so from a mathematical approach of calculating
planetary movements and aspectral relationships that come in those movements.
The reason that no one understood the meaning of The Prophecies is that Jesus Christ
required them to be written in a mysterious way. However, one of the ways that
provides the framework for the story, once the systematic methods unlock the
meaning is the astrological wording, which translates as astronomical planetary
placements. Those placements are mathematically fixed positions that are quite
specific. The time line has then been stated by Jesus Christ, by the use of astrological
wording. This makes what I will reveal on the following page 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 (5
have questioned authenticity), 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. That "quatrain" is
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 only knows how it works with 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 seeming great
majority are non-religious or just plain pagan. This is how astrology maintains a bad
rap, because it has been sorted into the "crazy crap" section of the book store. 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 Patriarch's of the Bible. When
he got to Abraham, he made a startling announcement: 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, the time before God first encountered Abraham (in the
Bible), when God told Abraham to move, he told him to move from Chaldea.
According to the history of astrology, the first known evidence of astrology dates back
to the Chaldean people. As this letter was also written under the watchful eye of Jesus
Christ, this says that astrology is God's gift to mankind; and, this can only be debated
in the believe in God - don't believe in God argument. Again, 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. These 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.
However, 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 save 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?
