I posted a new article on my website (www.pearlsofnostradamus.com) about the argument people have made over belief in Nostradamus, which is a valid argument. The argument is based on 450 years of people saying they know what Nostradamus meant, only to have more people end up questioning what those people said, than believe in Nostradamus. The argument logically breaks down like this: (all truths)
Prophecy is predicting the future.
The future is an endless amount of time.
Events in history bear general similarities to other past events [history repeats].
Future events will be similar to past events [history repeats].
Without a limit on when a predicted event will occur, only stated to be in a generally endless future, all predicted events constructed based on known actions, similarly having occurred in past events, will appear to happen again [history repeats].
This argument is valid because people have promoted that Nostradamus saw the end of the world coming in the year 3797. In 2010, a prediction expected to occur sometime between now and 3797 has a pretty good CHANCE of happening. That means CHANCE does not a Prophecy make. Prophecy, to be tested and deemed as truely prophetic, needs to be:
Foresighted, not hindsighted - It WILL happen in the future.
Specific, not general - It WILL happen this way.
Limited, not limitless, nor within limits that exceed reasonable expectations - It WILL happen in one's lifetime [minimally] - It WILL happen in the foreseeable future [preferably].
Because fools have ventured to think they know what Nostradamus meant, and say what they think loudly, only to be found fools, the result has been for most to think Nostradamus was the fool, and not the one doing the "thinning for him".
Nostradamus did write "the year 3797". This has nothing to do with some year numbered "3797". If it did, it had nothing to do with Julian or Gregorian dates. For instance, today [May 22, 2010] is the 6th of Sivan, 5770, according to the way the Hebrew calendar is set up. In other words, "the year 3797" could mean the year 37 AD, not long after Christ had died, risen, and ascended, and Christianity had begun. Still, that is not what "the year 3797" means.
The future that Nostradamus wrote of, in The Prophecies, is FORESIGHTED, SPECIFIC, and LIMITED to our lifetimes, although some that he predicted is part of our lifetimes in history class in school. Everything he wrote was future to him, thus FORESIGHTED, but in 1555 it needed to apppear general and limitless, because it would be almost 100 years before the first quatrain holding a prediction would come true. Then, another 100 years for another couple to come true; and then another 100 years for a few more. It would not be until after the 20th century rolled around that clumps of predictions began coming true. Even still, none of those were known to happen before they happened. All were determined in hindsight. This means what was predicted in 1555 would have to wait 450 years before it could become SPECIFIC, and LIMITED, because 450 years is well beyond one's normal lifespan. It would have been foolish to write a true Prophecy in 1555, which said, "Make sure you test this that will happen in 1948! Man, that one's a biggie." If that was the case, he might as well have said, "In 3797, check this out!"
I am here to tell everyone how to get the SPECIFIC out of the quatrains. Get the SPECIFIC, and you can go run and test all you want. I can tell you that all the stuff you hear in the news, about terrorism, threats of war, chances of environmental disasters [manmade], is what the quatrains tell about. All one has to know is that Washington D.C. will be suprise nuked, and you can sit back and wait to see it proven on the TV news [if the satelites are still working then]. What is happening now is mostly warning signs, before the bad stuff really starts. I can list over 700 SPECIFIC predictions that WILL happen, if no one gets off their butts and does anything to stop them from happening. The proof in that thar puddin is in those 200 or so that have already come true exactly as SPECIFICALLY FORESEEN, those that can be tested with documented history. They are hindsighted, but they are definitely SPECIFIC and LIMITED. But, test all you want. You have to see the SPECIFICS and know the LIMIT is your lifetime.
Still, in the article I posted, I address how all that specificity can be rolled up into a future that will be just like what has already been prophesied to come true, and did come true. That future foretold in the past is the stories of the Old Testament, and the New Testament. If you want to see your future, look at the future Jeremiah told to the people of Judah - before they lost everything. See how The Prophecies is just like The Revelation of John. If you don't want all the SPECIFICS bogging you down, with all that testing that comes with the SPECIFICS, then just sit back and see how the future of Nostradamus is telling everyone if you turn your back on God, you walk alone. You walk alone, you mess up big time. People, we are walking alone this very minute. It is a story that has repeated time after time.
If you have the patience to read 10 pages, check it out. www.pearlsofnostradamus.com
P.S. - I retooled the website, so it looks nicer. The main page has to be clicked on "tour the site" to find the page with the articles option. The articles are now on the "TNT Archive" button. Scroll down and find May 22, 2010. Click on "The Concept of History Repeating Itself".
P.P.S. - Grunt, or type a syllable, or something. Let me know if ANYONE actually reads anything posted here. Gosh be darned, don't go making comments or anything that would indictate higher intelligence life. I am happy seeing mircobial life forms at this point.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, August 20, 2009
They're Alive!
I had a blog from 2007 to the middle of 2009 on Yahoo, where my website www.pearlsofnostradamus.com is located. Then, after several account changes initiated by Yahoo (from one type of account class to a small business class, among others) was the notification that my blog would inexplicably disappear in June. They advised saving the blog posts, which I did, but I just recently found them in a file drawer.
The posts can no longer be seen online, since the blog they appeared on originally is history; but I have resurrected the ones from 2009. They will appear after this post, with the most recent first. There are six I transferred to here. I did not copy some rant postings, which have little to do with Nostradamus, other than a world gone to heck in a handbasket (something that is irritating to me at times) is the general theme of Nostradamus.
The blogs offer information that is still worthy of viewing. Enjoy.
The posts can no longer be seen online, since the blog they appeared on originally is history; but I have resurrected the ones from 2009. They will appear after this post, with the most recent first. There are six I transferred to here. I did not copy some rant postings, which have little to do with Nostradamus, other than a world gone to heck in a handbasket (something that is irritating to me at times) is the general theme of Nostradamus.
The blogs offer information that is still worthy of viewing. Enjoy.
Quatrain IX-73
Entry for June 30, 2009
One last entry on this blog. It has to do with the timing element of astrological-astronomical data. To demonstrate, I will use quatrain IX - 73. That quatrain states (My English translation only):
Within Time enters this scorned Turban,
And will govern least evolved Saturn,
King Uproar-one white & Byzantium heart edict,
Sun, Mars, Mercury near there the urn.
Focusing first only on the fourth line, "the urn" is the sign of Aquarius (the water-bearer). The "Sun, Mars, (and) Mercury" are all "there" in Aquarius, and they are all "near", which is astrological lingo for being in conjunction with each other. That means the planets cannot be more than 5 degrees of arc away from one another. With three planets involved, the widest arc would be 10 degrees, if each was 5 degrees apart, say at 5, 10, 15 degrees of Aquarius.
The next thing that has to be recognized is the order that the heavenly bodies went into Aquarius. The order is: Sun first, Mars second, and Mercury third. Now, the Sun goes into Aquarius every year, between late January and late February. Mercury is never more than 30 degrees from the Sun, so it often goes into Aquarius around the time the Sun does, although sometimes before, sometimes after, and at other times they miss being in Aquarius at the same time. Mars is the slowest planet, taking a little less than two years to go through all the signs, so it goes through Aquarius roughly every two years. The only thing one has to do is see when this order of movement into Aquarius occurred, and see if all were conjunct. Sounds simple, right?
Knowing that the story of The Prophecies is mostly relative to the 20th and 21st centuries (early 21st century), I checked a 100-year ephemeris for the 20th century, and a 50-year ephemeris for the 21st century, and guess what. There was only one time this specific alignment occurred, in that order, when all were conjunct for any period of time. The time was in 1979.
On January 21, 1979, the Sun moved into Aquarius first. Only 1.5 hours later, Mars entered too, second, meaning both were instantly conjunct. Then, on January 29, 1979 Mercury moved into Aquarius, only a little more than 5 degrees from Mars (close enough to call it conjunct), while Mars was still conjunct with the Sun (2 degrees away from Mars - 8.5 to 6.5 degrees). By the 30th all were solidly conjunct. On the 14th of February (15 days later) all had remained conjunct. Late on the 14th Mercury left Aquarius, going into Pisces, leaving Sun and Mars about 5 degrees apart, still conjunct. Again, there were other times all were in Aquarius together, but only 2-3 times in the right order, and only once when all were conjunct.
Now, since this is on line four, the timing has to relate to what was stated before. That means we then have to figure out the first three lines. To make a long story short, if you look up in an internet history of 1979 list, it becomes easy to see the guy in the Turban (sometimes mistakenly translated as the "man in the blue turban" - WRONG!) is the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had been "scorned" into exile, then in France. The governing part, where "Saturn" has the symbolic meaning of ruling harshly, as a punisher, is how the Ayatollah ruled (through henchmen running the government, so he could pray), but also how the Shah of Iran had ruled prior to abdicating his throne. He did that, by the way, on January 1, 1979, clearing the way for the Turban man to enter.
The "King" of line three also works both ways, such that the Shah, who was the equivalent of a "King", had gotten the people in Iran in an uproar, kinda like they were recently after the election there. That uproar led to his abdication. The King Uproar-one, as Khomeini, is because the Shah, as a puppet for America, had forced a "white" revolution on the people, meaning he was Westernizing Iran, much to the chagrin of the Islamists. In fact, the Shah wanted Iran to be "white" like Turkey was when under "Byzantine" rule. That was a "heart" warming feeling to the West, needing Iranian oil, but to the Muslims it felt "heart" sick, like another Crusade was underway.
The Ayatollah returned from exil to Iran on February 1, 1979. He declared an Islamic Revolution on February 6, 1979. He seized power over Iran on February 11, 1979.
All while "Sun, Mars, Mercury" were "near" one another in conjunction, "there" in "the urn" of Aquarius. That my friends is some accurate prophesizing. That's a 424-year vision of the future, exactly as the future would unfold.
One last entry on this blog. It has to do with the timing element of astrological-astronomical data. To demonstrate, I will use quatrain IX - 73. That quatrain states (My English translation only):
Within Time enters this scorned Turban,
And will govern least evolved Saturn,
King Uproar-one white & Byzantium heart edict,
Sun, Mars, Mercury near there the urn.
Focusing first only on the fourth line, "the urn" is the sign of Aquarius (the water-bearer). The "Sun, Mars, (and) Mercury" are all "there" in Aquarius, and they are all "near", which is astrological lingo for being in conjunction with each other. That means the planets cannot be more than 5 degrees of arc away from one another. With three planets involved, the widest arc would be 10 degrees, if each was 5 degrees apart, say at 5, 10, 15 degrees of Aquarius.
The next thing that has to be recognized is the order that the heavenly bodies went into Aquarius. The order is: Sun first, Mars second, and Mercury third. Now, the Sun goes into Aquarius every year, between late January and late February. Mercury is never more than 30 degrees from the Sun, so it often goes into Aquarius around the time the Sun does, although sometimes before, sometimes after, and at other times they miss being in Aquarius at the same time. Mars is the slowest planet, taking a little less than two years to go through all the signs, so it goes through Aquarius roughly every two years. The only thing one has to do is see when this order of movement into Aquarius occurred, and see if all were conjunct. Sounds simple, right?
Knowing that the story of The Prophecies is mostly relative to the 20th and 21st centuries (early 21st century), I checked a 100-year ephemeris for the 20th century, and a 50-year ephemeris for the 21st century, and guess what. There was only one time this specific alignment occurred, in that order, when all were conjunct for any period of time. The time was in 1979.
On January 21, 1979, the Sun moved into Aquarius first. Only 1.5 hours later, Mars entered too, second, meaning both were instantly conjunct. Then, on January 29, 1979 Mercury moved into Aquarius, only a little more than 5 degrees from Mars (close enough to call it conjunct), while Mars was still conjunct with the Sun (2 degrees away from Mars - 8.5 to 6.5 degrees). By the 30th all were solidly conjunct. On the 14th of February (15 days later) all had remained conjunct. Late on the 14th Mercury left Aquarius, going into Pisces, leaving Sun and Mars about 5 degrees apart, still conjunct. Again, there were other times all were in Aquarius together, but only 2-3 times in the right order, and only once when all were conjunct.
Now, since this is on line four, the timing has to relate to what was stated before. That means we then have to figure out the first three lines. To make a long story short, if you look up in an internet history of 1979 list, it becomes easy to see the guy in the Turban (sometimes mistakenly translated as the "man in the blue turban" - WRONG!) is the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had been "scorned" into exile, then in France. The governing part, where "Saturn" has the symbolic meaning of ruling harshly, as a punisher, is how the Ayatollah ruled (through henchmen running the government, so he could pray), but also how the Shah of Iran had ruled prior to abdicating his throne. He did that, by the way, on January 1, 1979, clearing the way for the Turban man to enter.
The "King" of line three also works both ways, such that the Shah, who was the equivalent of a "King", had gotten the people in Iran in an uproar, kinda like they were recently after the election there. That uproar led to his abdication. The King Uproar-one, as Khomeini, is because the Shah, as a puppet for America, had forced a "white" revolution on the people, meaning he was Westernizing Iran, much to the chagrin of the Islamists. In fact, the Shah wanted Iran to be "white" like Turkey was when under "Byzantine" rule. That was a "heart" warming feeling to the West, needing Iranian oil, but to the Muslims it felt "heart" sick, like another Crusade was underway.
The Ayatollah returned from exil to Iran on February 1, 1979. He declared an Islamic Revolution on February 6, 1979. He seized power over Iran on February 11, 1979.
All while "Sun, Mars, Mercury" were "near" one another in conjunction, "there" in "the urn" of Aquarius. That my friends is some accurate prophesizing. That's a 424-year vision of the future, exactly as the future would unfold.
We have seen the enemy and he is us
Entry for June 22, 2009
Current events seem to be totally focused on the uproar in Iran, due to the “election results” not being believed by many people in Tehran. In the United States, some people are upset that President Obama has only publicly stated, “The eyes of the world are on Iran now,” instead of saying something more hawkish or dovish. The reality is one most Americans are blind to.
The United States of America came into being in 1776 because of principles that did not want to be dominated by a King, and did not want to be dominated by (specifically) the Roman Catholic Church, or (generally) a theocracy. The Constitution of the United States of America was drafted to create a nation where the majority ruled, such that the true definition of “democracy” is, “majority rule government, by the people”. The term “republic” supports this rule by the “pubic”.
What is most often forgotten is the system that connected thirteen colonies, which became autonomous states, where the majority ruled each state, and representatives from each state were elected by the people to govern the overall wellbeing of the totality of the states. Safety in numbers was the basic theory behind the decision to have a republic form of government, where a strong central governing body offered more sustenance and security than did a confederation idea stated in the Articles of Confederation. However, the founding fathers made it clear, writing into the Constitution that if ever the strong republican government began to overstep its boundaries, set to do nothing more than serve the will of the majority, that government should be changed and a new Constitution written.
What is now happening in Iran is no different that what happened in the United States of America in 1860. While the issues are different, in both cases the people voiced strong opposition to the strong central government’s refusal to allow the will of the people to be the rule of law. The rights of states to be autonomous entities, where the will of the majority told its representatives to withdraw from the central government and write a new Constitution was challenged by the central republican government.
It was not challenged by words. It was challenged by armed assault. It became a declaration of war between the strong central republican government and the individual states, whose people had demanded sovereignty to do as they wished. The war would be fought by people drafted by the strong central republican government (conscripted without their will in many cases), and those volunteering to sacrifice their lives for the principles of democracy (each southern state had its own army, which was sent to join with the armies of the other southern states).
In the years between 1860 and 1865, the eyes of the world were on the United States of America. The British assisted the northern states, or the government of the United States of America in Washington, D.C. (a city the British burned to the ground in 1814, only 46 years earlier). The French assisted the southern states, or the Confederacy headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. The British were a stronger world naval presence, so their assistance kept the French from having an impact on the outcome of an American Civil War. The world was not allowed to meddle in what Americans were willing to fight amongst themselves to settle.
When the American Civil War was over the north had won. The south had been slashed and burned. Once the will of the people has been militarily quelled, democracy has nothing to do with the result. When the rebellious states were once again rejoined with the Union, democracy died in those United States of America. The Reconstruction Era was the most corrupt period the USA had known, up to that time. The people of the south would be politically punished for decades. That is how winners show their willingness to forgive and forget rebellion … by not letting that thought ever rise again.
The same can be expected in Iran today. Their strong central government, although never a democracy, is a republican theocracy, which depends on the majority of the people being Islamic. An election in an Islamic Republic is not the same thing as an election in a true democracy, one that has disdain for royal and religious rulers. An election in an Islamic Republic is not the same as one in an Iraqi dictatorship, or one in a Venezuelan dictatorship, or one like those that took place in the American presidential elections of 2000, 2004, and 2008. Even though all four are similarly aligned in principle (oligarchic rule), they all differ in philosophy (no kings born to rise to rule).
Nostradamus’ story told in the quatrains and letters of The Prophecies is about the rise of common man, to see it as necessary to dethrone rulers born of royal blood (the blood of Jesus Christ), thus divinely placed to rule by God, and replace them with leaders from their common ranks. Once empowered with the stolen rule, the common man would then block all attempts by religious rulers to subvert their governmental influence over the masses, with Communism being the ultimate philosophy ensuring that blockage. The theocracies of the world are the last vestiges of God’s rulers over the commoners.
Nostradamus named Iran as a central figure in the coming war of revenge and retribution against the world. This war will be called a holy war, although nothing holy will come from it. It will be called a holy war because the side taken by the Iranians will be as God’s avengers over those influenced by Satan, who historically have brought the pain of war to the Middle East, in the name of Christianity (the Crusades). This means that what is happening in Iran today is part of this trail to the coming holy war. While the world can watch, it cannot keep Iran from heading to the place where they will eventually go. At least, the world cannot keep Iran from going there by interfering with Iran’s affairs.
Iran’s pet name for the United States of America is “the Great Satan.” Iranians always say, “I don’t hate Americans. I just hate their government.” Osama bin Laden has repeatedly promised jihad against America, because, “the time has come for Americans to be responsible for the doings of their government.”
All of this means that while the world watches Iran, the world should be seeing itself. Everyone else must see Iran as not the cause, but the reaction to another cause. The cause is the hatred for Iran by the outside world, which was caused by a Christian-Communist world’s hatred of Islam. Iranians hate being hated, and Ahmadinejad represents that hatred of a world that hates Iran. He represents the leader who is against would-be kings ruling over Iran (America and its allies, as the strongest nations of the world), and who would be act as God’s theocracy over Iran (another Christian Crusade by the Knights of America). Ahmadinejad is therefore a reflection of Thomas Jefferson, who hated a British crown and theocratic influences on that crown, enough to go to war against a greater foe, simply on principles.
The world feels threatened because the world is a threat. When one is threatened, the one to stop is the one causing the threat. In other words, the United States is creating the threat to Iran, not by its action of watching today, but by its subversion over the past sixty years. Nostradamus wrote of this too: the creation of the State of Israel on stolen Arab land; the creation of puppet rulers in several Middle Eastern / North African lands, in particular the Shah of Iran; creating the American Hostage Crisis, the Iraq Wars of 1991 and 2003, and the Afghanistan War (2002 to present). If America feels threatened by Iran, Americans need to make the United States of America stop being a threat to Iran.
The other option is to make some kind of decision about Iran’s decision about its civil unrest. If they do not overturn the election results, then America should do what? Should America and its allies make things economically bad for the Iranian people, like the way it punished Saddam Hussein for kicking out weapons inspectors? They are the ones protesting the results of the election. Should they be starved to death? What has the United States done about that dictator in North Korea, Kim Jong-il? It is starving North Koreans through sanctions. That works so well they are sending ships out into the Pacific so the range of their missiles can reach Hawaii.
Americans need to listen when someone says someone else is wrong. There is some truth to every story. Compromise is often a good route to take. Simple rejection only works when the explanation for something has been heard, without any proof to back it up, time and time again. When North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran want to test the ability of the United States to police the whole world, preventing nuclear proliferation, it says something more is wrong than North Korea, or Iran having nuclear weapons. Anyone having nuclear weapons is a danger to the world. The United States and Israel have nuclear weapons, which is threatening the Middle East, causing them to want them as a threat to us. What goes around comes around. The only way to stop that madness is to stop ourselves first. One cannot gain peace through war. One can only kill so many people that the war has to take a break for a few decades, so some new blood can then grow and become ready to sacrifice anew for an old cause.
Current events seem to be totally focused on the uproar in Iran, due to the “election results” not being believed by many people in Tehran. In the United States, some people are upset that President Obama has only publicly stated, “The eyes of the world are on Iran now,” instead of saying something more hawkish or dovish. The reality is one most Americans are blind to.
The United States of America came into being in 1776 because of principles that did not want to be dominated by a King, and did not want to be dominated by (specifically) the Roman Catholic Church, or (generally) a theocracy. The Constitution of the United States of America was drafted to create a nation where the majority ruled, such that the true definition of “democracy” is, “majority rule government, by the people”. The term “republic” supports this rule by the “pubic”.
What is most often forgotten is the system that connected thirteen colonies, which became autonomous states, where the majority ruled each state, and representatives from each state were elected by the people to govern the overall wellbeing of the totality of the states. Safety in numbers was the basic theory behind the decision to have a republic form of government, where a strong central governing body offered more sustenance and security than did a confederation idea stated in the Articles of Confederation. However, the founding fathers made it clear, writing into the Constitution that if ever the strong republican government began to overstep its boundaries, set to do nothing more than serve the will of the majority, that government should be changed and a new Constitution written.
What is now happening in Iran is no different that what happened in the United States of America in 1860. While the issues are different, in both cases the people voiced strong opposition to the strong central government’s refusal to allow the will of the people to be the rule of law. The rights of states to be autonomous entities, where the will of the majority told its representatives to withdraw from the central government and write a new Constitution was challenged by the central republican government.
It was not challenged by words. It was challenged by armed assault. It became a declaration of war between the strong central republican government and the individual states, whose people had demanded sovereignty to do as they wished. The war would be fought by people drafted by the strong central republican government (conscripted without their will in many cases), and those volunteering to sacrifice their lives for the principles of democracy (each southern state had its own army, which was sent to join with the armies of the other southern states).
In the years between 1860 and 1865, the eyes of the world were on the United States of America. The British assisted the northern states, or the government of the United States of America in Washington, D.C. (a city the British burned to the ground in 1814, only 46 years earlier). The French assisted the southern states, or the Confederacy headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. The British were a stronger world naval presence, so their assistance kept the French from having an impact on the outcome of an American Civil War. The world was not allowed to meddle in what Americans were willing to fight amongst themselves to settle.
When the American Civil War was over the north had won. The south had been slashed and burned. Once the will of the people has been militarily quelled, democracy has nothing to do with the result. When the rebellious states were once again rejoined with the Union, democracy died in those United States of America. The Reconstruction Era was the most corrupt period the USA had known, up to that time. The people of the south would be politically punished for decades. That is how winners show their willingness to forgive and forget rebellion … by not letting that thought ever rise again.
The same can be expected in Iran today. Their strong central government, although never a democracy, is a republican theocracy, which depends on the majority of the people being Islamic. An election in an Islamic Republic is not the same thing as an election in a true democracy, one that has disdain for royal and religious rulers. An election in an Islamic Republic is not the same as one in an Iraqi dictatorship, or one in a Venezuelan dictatorship, or one like those that took place in the American presidential elections of 2000, 2004, and 2008. Even though all four are similarly aligned in principle (oligarchic rule), they all differ in philosophy (no kings born to rise to rule).
Nostradamus’ story told in the quatrains and letters of The Prophecies is about the rise of common man, to see it as necessary to dethrone rulers born of royal blood (the blood of Jesus Christ), thus divinely placed to rule by God, and replace them with leaders from their common ranks. Once empowered with the stolen rule, the common man would then block all attempts by religious rulers to subvert their governmental influence over the masses, with Communism being the ultimate philosophy ensuring that blockage. The theocracies of the world are the last vestiges of God’s rulers over the commoners.
Nostradamus named Iran as a central figure in the coming war of revenge and retribution against the world. This war will be called a holy war, although nothing holy will come from it. It will be called a holy war because the side taken by the Iranians will be as God’s avengers over those influenced by Satan, who historically have brought the pain of war to the Middle East, in the name of Christianity (the Crusades). This means that what is happening in Iran today is part of this trail to the coming holy war. While the world can watch, it cannot keep Iran from heading to the place where they will eventually go. At least, the world cannot keep Iran from going there by interfering with Iran’s affairs.
Iran’s pet name for the United States of America is “the Great Satan.” Iranians always say, “I don’t hate Americans. I just hate their government.” Osama bin Laden has repeatedly promised jihad against America, because, “the time has come for Americans to be responsible for the doings of their government.”
All of this means that while the world watches Iran, the world should be seeing itself. Everyone else must see Iran as not the cause, but the reaction to another cause. The cause is the hatred for Iran by the outside world, which was caused by a Christian-Communist world’s hatred of Islam. Iranians hate being hated, and Ahmadinejad represents that hatred of a world that hates Iran. He represents the leader who is against would-be kings ruling over Iran (America and its allies, as the strongest nations of the world), and who would be act as God’s theocracy over Iran (another Christian Crusade by the Knights of America). Ahmadinejad is therefore a reflection of Thomas Jefferson, who hated a British crown and theocratic influences on that crown, enough to go to war against a greater foe, simply on principles.
The world feels threatened because the world is a threat. When one is threatened, the one to stop is the one causing the threat. In other words, the United States is creating the threat to Iran, not by its action of watching today, but by its subversion over the past sixty years. Nostradamus wrote of this too: the creation of the State of Israel on stolen Arab land; the creation of puppet rulers in several Middle Eastern / North African lands, in particular the Shah of Iran; creating the American Hostage Crisis, the Iraq Wars of 1991 and 2003, and the Afghanistan War (2002 to present). If America feels threatened by Iran, Americans need to make the United States of America stop being a threat to Iran.
The other option is to make some kind of decision about Iran’s decision about its civil unrest. If they do not overturn the election results, then America should do what? Should America and its allies make things economically bad for the Iranian people, like the way it punished Saddam Hussein for kicking out weapons inspectors? They are the ones protesting the results of the election. Should they be starved to death? What has the United States done about that dictator in North Korea, Kim Jong-il? It is starving North Koreans through sanctions. That works so well they are sending ships out into the Pacific so the range of their missiles can reach Hawaii.
Americans need to listen when someone says someone else is wrong. There is some truth to every story. Compromise is often a good route to take. Simple rejection only works when the explanation for something has been heard, without any proof to back it up, time and time again. When North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran want to test the ability of the United States to police the whole world, preventing nuclear proliferation, it says something more is wrong than North Korea, or Iran having nuclear weapons. Anyone having nuclear weapons is a danger to the world. The United States and Israel have nuclear weapons, which is threatening the Middle East, causing them to want them as a threat to us. What goes around comes around. The only way to stop that madness is to stop ourselves first. One cannot gain peace through war. One can only kill so many people that the war has to take a break for a few decades, so some new blood can then grow and become ready to sacrifice anew for an old cause.
Seeing the same thing differently
Entry for May 17, 2009
I apologize for having not posted in a while. I have been working on my next book, and I have been involved in some learning activities that have taken up the majority of my time lately. The learning activities are now reaching a break point, leaving me time to focus more on the book.
I saw a post on one of the past entries I made (March maybe?), which generated a thread of comments. The post was for a website (Hungarian I believe), with an English translation made available. The English was difficult to follow, as was the theory; but it was interesting. A friend I met was doing similar work with the Bible, particularly the bookof The Revelation (but later Genesis as well), which is finding amazing codes embedded into texts. The link I checked out reminded me of my friend's posts.
I have long seen my work with Nostradamus symbolized by the Richard Dryfus character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He was compelled to make a paper-maché mountain, which it turned out many other people had similar compulsions, only different. I see this as why so many people cannot fully grasp what I am trying to explain about what Nostradamus wrote - it is why I can't fully grasp what my friend and this poster (and other posters with links attached here) is trying to say. All I know is we are all looking at the same distant point, from different perspectives.
My next book has the working title of "The Systems of Nostradamus". It is a refinement of what I attempted to explain in part of Pearls Before Swine, Vol. 1. This book will be much clearer, and it will act as a "how to" book on understanding Nostradamus. Keep in mind that a "how to build a house" book does not come with lumber, nails, hammers, or saws. Some other materials will be required to come by, but with my book anyone who wants to can learn how to understand The Prophecies. I see it as a course I could teach, if anyone is interested.
I apologize for having not posted in a while. I have been working on my next book, and I have been involved in some learning activities that have taken up the majority of my time lately. The learning activities are now reaching a break point, leaving me time to focus more on the book.
I saw a post on one of the past entries I made (March maybe?), which generated a thread of comments. The post was for a website (Hungarian I believe), with an English translation made available. The English was difficult to follow, as was the theory; but it was interesting. A friend I met was doing similar work with the Bible, particularly the bookof The Revelation (but later Genesis as well), which is finding amazing codes embedded into texts. The link I checked out reminded me of my friend's posts.
I have long seen my work with Nostradamus symbolized by the Richard Dryfus character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He was compelled to make a paper-maché mountain, which it turned out many other people had similar compulsions, only different. I see this as why so many people cannot fully grasp what I am trying to explain about what Nostradamus wrote - it is why I can't fully grasp what my friend and this poster (and other posters with links attached here) is trying to say. All I know is we are all looking at the same distant point, from different perspectives.
My next book has the working title of "The Systems of Nostradamus". It is a refinement of what I attempted to explain in part of Pearls Before Swine, Vol. 1. This book will be much clearer, and it will act as a "how to" book on understanding Nostradamus. Keep in mind that a "how to build a house" book does not come with lumber, nails, hammers, or saws. Some other materials will be required to come by, but with my book anyone who wants to can learn how to understand The Prophecies. I see it as a course I could teach, if anyone is interested.
Quatrain X-74
Entry for March 17, 2009
I had a question on my other blog about the quatrain numbered X - 74, which is somewhat commonly known as the "Games of Slaughter" quatrain. I believe the person posing the question is in his 20s (perhaps late teens), because he saw this quatrain in a modern light, one of video games. He did not sound old enough to have known about the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, where members of the Palestinian freedom fighters-terrorists killed eleven members of the Israeli team, with themselves being killed by German military-police-SWAT.
While those were REAL Games of Slaughter, the person made a good point about how today's video games have become gorier and gorier. He, as a seasoned player, stated he was being appalled at how bloody they have become; and he saw where other translators have read the last line of that quatrain to say, "When the dead will come out of their grave."
From ads I have seen on television, the dead coming out of their grave seems normal in a shoot-em-up, hack-em-up, kick some alien butt, re-live the carnage of World War II on your XBox / Wii / whatever the latest is video-computer gadget game is. Is it still the same as it was with Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo, back in 1988-1990? If you die, do you get another life and keep playing? I imagine that would act like the dead coming out of their grave. It could seem like Nostradamus might be watching kids playing those games of slaughter when he wrote that quatrain.
There could be a parallel, certainly; but Nostradamus was referring to the '72 Summer Olympics in line two of this quatrain. There can be no doubt of that, if you know what was really stated. And, line four does not say, "When the dead will come out of their grave." That is just another bit of evidence of how I mean it when I say, "Everything you think you know about Nostradamus is wrong." You cannot look up a Nostradamus quatrain on the Internet and just take it as the whole truth. Half-truths maybe, but not the whole truth.
Lines one and two state: Year revolved to the great number seventh / Will appear at the time Games of Slaughter.
The question made me take another look at this quatrain. I'm glad I did. It always amazes me to see something new in something I have looked at before and thought I was amazed then. Two thing I missed in line one was the key verb, "revolved" (revolu) and the noun, "number" (nombre). I was looking at "Year" and "seventh", and seeing the "seventh" decade of the 20th Century. One "Year", the first even "number" "Year", the first "Year" of an Olympics in the "seventh" decade. I saw that as a tight fit for the 1972 Olympics.
While it is some good evidence, it is not "seal a deal" evidence, especially when trying to convince a doubter (I know you're out there) that Nostradamus was a Prophet of God, with nothing but truth to tell. The "revolved" word has been translated by many as "accomplished". This is incorrect. In Old French, "revolu" is said to translate as, "revolved; rounded or turned wholly, past or gone fully about." As far as idioms go, the French phrase, "L'an revolu" means, "The year fully ended." Unfortunately, Nostradamus did not write a book of idioms, or we would all know precisely what Nostradamus meant long ago. The word "revolu" best translates as "revolved", with the modern usage meaning simply, "past".
When we find we are looking for an important "Year" (capitalized word), one that has "revolved", meaning an important "Year past" that has come full circle to an important "Year" presently "revolved" to again, we are not looking for the "number seventh", as the "seventh Year", but the "number" of other important "Years past", which makes the "revolved number" the "seventh". The "seventh" decade has nothing to do with the meaning of "number seventh" yet. That is found in line two.
Line two states, "Will appear at the time Games of Slaughter." This is stating that the important "Year" is "the time" of reference. It is a "time" when a "Year revolves", or repeats. A Leap "Year" is "revolved" every four years; and so too is an Olympics "Year" likewise "revolved". We find out we are talking about an Olympics (capitalized word) because "at the time will appear Games" (capitalized word). Big G "Games" are none other than the Olympics, at least since the Olympics restarted at the turn of the 19th Century to the 20th Century (the Modern Olympics [revolved Games] began in 1896). Thus, we are looking for the important "Year" when the "Games" "Will appear" again "revolved", this time to a "Year" of the "seventh number", like the "seventh" decade of the renewed "Games", which would be in the 1970s. This is when "Will appear" (capitalized word, in this case emphasizing a sudden appearance seen from the past) "Games of Slaughter". That would be the 1972 Munich Olympics.
However, the key words are still "revolved" and "seventh". Munich is in Germany. The "Year" of 1972 stood as an important "Year". It was the first "time" Germany had hosted the "Games" since Adolph Hitler was Chancellor, during the "Games" of Berlin, in 1936. So, the "Games" had "revolved" back to Germany. Now, if one subtracts 1936 from 1972, one gets 36. Divide 36 by 4 and you get 9. Thus, there were nine sets of "Games" scheduled to appear (not capitalized) in the revolution back to Germany. Unfortunately due to some great "Slaughter" (capitalized word) between 1939 and 1945, in and around Germany, only six Olympics had been held between 1936 and 1968 (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968). This means the 1972 Munich Olympics "Will appear" (capitalized word) as the "seventh" in a "number" of Olympic "Games", which represented the cycle of "Games" that had "revolved" them back to Germany. That is nothing short of amazing. I had not seen any of this detail before, because it was so obvious to me that the "Games of Slaughter" were the 1972 Olympics of death.
There is much more to see in this quatrain, including the reality of what line four says. But, I will leave that for another time and another place.
I had a question on my other blog about the quatrain numbered X - 74, which is somewhat commonly known as the "Games of Slaughter" quatrain. I believe the person posing the question is in his 20s (perhaps late teens), because he saw this quatrain in a modern light, one of video games. He did not sound old enough to have known about the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, where members of the Palestinian freedom fighters-terrorists killed eleven members of the Israeli team, with themselves being killed by German military-police-SWAT.
While those were REAL Games of Slaughter, the person made a good point about how today's video games have become gorier and gorier. He, as a seasoned player, stated he was being appalled at how bloody they have become; and he saw where other translators have read the last line of that quatrain to say, "When the dead will come out of their grave."
From ads I have seen on television, the dead coming out of their grave seems normal in a shoot-em-up, hack-em-up, kick some alien butt, re-live the carnage of World War II on your XBox / Wii / whatever the latest is video-computer gadget game is. Is it still the same as it was with Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo, back in 1988-1990? If you die, do you get another life and keep playing? I imagine that would act like the dead coming out of their grave. It could seem like Nostradamus might be watching kids playing those games of slaughter when he wrote that quatrain.
There could be a parallel, certainly; but Nostradamus was referring to the '72 Summer Olympics in line two of this quatrain. There can be no doubt of that, if you know what was really stated. And, line four does not say, "When the dead will come out of their grave." That is just another bit of evidence of how I mean it when I say, "Everything you think you know about Nostradamus is wrong." You cannot look up a Nostradamus quatrain on the Internet and just take it as the whole truth. Half-truths maybe, but not the whole truth.
Lines one and two state: Year revolved to the great number seventh / Will appear at the time Games of Slaughter.
The question made me take another look at this quatrain. I'm glad I did. It always amazes me to see something new in something I have looked at before and thought I was amazed then. Two thing I missed in line one was the key verb, "revolved" (revolu) and the noun, "number" (nombre). I was looking at "Year" and "seventh", and seeing the "seventh" decade of the 20th Century. One "Year", the first even "number" "Year", the first "Year" of an Olympics in the "seventh" decade. I saw that as a tight fit for the 1972 Olympics.
While it is some good evidence, it is not "seal a deal" evidence, especially when trying to convince a doubter (I know you're out there) that Nostradamus was a Prophet of God, with nothing but truth to tell. The "revolved" word has been translated by many as "accomplished". This is incorrect. In Old French, "revolu" is said to translate as, "revolved; rounded or turned wholly, past or gone fully about." As far as idioms go, the French phrase, "L'an revolu" means, "The year fully ended." Unfortunately, Nostradamus did not write a book of idioms, or we would all know precisely what Nostradamus meant long ago. The word "revolu" best translates as "revolved", with the modern usage meaning simply, "past".
When we find we are looking for an important "Year" (capitalized word), one that has "revolved", meaning an important "Year past" that has come full circle to an important "Year" presently "revolved" to again, we are not looking for the "number seventh", as the "seventh Year", but the "number" of other important "Years past", which makes the "revolved number" the "seventh". The "seventh" decade has nothing to do with the meaning of "number seventh" yet. That is found in line two.
Line two states, "Will appear at the time Games of Slaughter." This is stating that the important "Year" is "the time" of reference. It is a "time" when a "Year revolves", or repeats. A Leap "Year" is "revolved" every four years; and so too is an Olympics "Year" likewise "revolved". We find out we are talking about an Olympics (capitalized word) because "at the time will appear Games" (capitalized word). Big G "Games" are none other than the Olympics, at least since the Olympics restarted at the turn of the 19th Century to the 20th Century (the Modern Olympics [revolved Games] began in 1896). Thus, we are looking for the important "Year" when the "Games" "Will appear" again "revolved", this time to a "Year" of the "seventh number", like the "seventh" decade of the renewed "Games", which would be in the 1970s. This is when "Will appear" (capitalized word, in this case emphasizing a sudden appearance seen from the past) "Games of Slaughter". That would be the 1972 Munich Olympics.
However, the key words are still "revolved" and "seventh". Munich is in Germany. The "Year" of 1972 stood as an important "Year". It was the first "time" Germany had hosted the "Games" since Adolph Hitler was Chancellor, during the "Games" of Berlin, in 1936. So, the "Games" had "revolved" back to Germany. Now, if one subtracts 1936 from 1972, one gets 36. Divide 36 by 4 and you get 9. Thus, there were nine sets of "Games" scheduled to appear (not capitalized) in the revolution back to Germany. Unfortunately due to some great "Slaughter" (capitalized word) between 1939 and 1945, in and around Germany, only six Olympics had been held between 1936 and 1968 (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968). This means the 1972 Munich Olympics "Will appear" (capitalized word) as the "seventh" in a "number" of Olympic "Games", which represented the cycle of "Games" that had "revolved" them back to Germany. That is nothing short of amazing. I had not seen any of this detail before, because it was so obvious to me that the "Games of Slaughter" were the 1972 Olympics of death.
There is much more to see in this quatrain, including the reality of what line four says. But, I will leave that for another time and another place.
Comments on astrology
Entry for January 19, 2009
Let me say a few words about astrology. Most people have the notion that astrology is what they read in the funny papers. Daily horoscopes, as far as I am concerned, are hooey. I have known some fairly reputable astrologers that signed on with newspapers or magazines to write entertainment and let people think that is astrology.
The word horoscope is from the Greek combo Hour-observer. From this origin, the word can be seen as meaning a chart for any hour of time. Individuals get one assigned for that person's birth hour. Then, the planets can again be frozen in time for a comparison of the natal chart. The planetary positions frozen on paper at the birth hour are meshed with a chart for another time after birth. This second chart can be for a projected time into the future; but a time far into the future could have no immediate importance. Therefore, a horoscope is a comparison to the individual's chart (birth chart) and a global chart (where the planets are for everyone - aka transit chart).
In other words, a newspaper horoscope is from only looking at a global chart, with 12 Sun points known (aka the zodiac signs) for comparison. The Sun points are roughly in the center of a 30-degree range, but they can be adjected to fit the degree where an important planet is traveling. This makes an entertainment horoscope mostly misses, but sometimes a strong hit happens. Chance is only at play, but there are some methods applied. Just know that a real horoscope is between a qualified astrologer and you, with an accurate birth chart cast (precise time of birth, location of birth, date of birth).
There is not causal effect argument that can be made as to how astrology works. This means a planet has no effect that will cause you to do something. Even though the Sun can make you sweat and give you a tan or sunburn, and the moon can make the tide go up and down, none of that has anything to do with astrology. Astrology is an art that requires an ability to read how the placement of planets reflects, or mirrors, their relationship to your natal planetary positions. It is all symbolic reflection.
Have you ever gone into the bathroom and looked at yourself in the mirror? Sometimes you see flaws that need to be covered up or doctored. Sometimes you see near perfection, or you see the process that is required to get close to that perfection. Sometimes you see someone tired. Sometimes you see someone unkempt. Sometimes you see someone that no longer looks like the someone you used to see there.
Now, ask yourself this question: Does that mirror cause me to look the way I look? As you come to that simple answer, ask yourself this question next: When I leave the bathroom, if someone else was to come in and looks at the same mirror, would that someone see me? If you were able to come to rational answers to these two questions, you now know see how astrology works like a mirror, reflecting self back at you.
Self is a very important thing to know. Some people know themselves very well, and go about leading their lives in ways that count on their personal strengths, while controlling their personal weaknesses. Those people do not need astrologers, if they are doing all that naturally. However, some people are blind when they look in the mirror. They see someone that is not there, thinking if they deny what they see the world will be fooled if they act like someone else. Those people usually lead lives running into bridk walls a lot. That happens when you are blind and do not admit it. Astrology could help those people (with a qualified astrologer), but health insurace is more likely to pay a shrink to help one face the realities of life.
Before someone can look at a horoscope and expect to have some stranger tell them what their future will be, that someone must first know self. In fact, a psychologist cannot help someone with their past problems if their client will not tell them the truth about themselves. In the same manner, an astrologer cannot really help anyone without knowing the person they are trying to help better.
Truth is another reflection of image. Tell the truth, the truth gets told back to you. Tell a lie and what else can you expect to hear? That is why so many fake astrologers, psychics, Tarot readers, et al get in the news. They lied about being whatever they said they were; but they were lying to liars, so they thought it was okay.
One needs to develop a relationship with a good astrologer, so an astrologer can best learn a client's natural strengths and weaknesses. This is seen by reviewing (sharing) past failures and successes seen reflected in key past charts. Then, when a reflection patterns have yielded a modus operandus, it becomes possible to see how a reflection into the future can be prepared for. However, the future, just like the past and present, happens because we act.
Only rarely does a check come in the mail out of the blue. We have to make things happen, and astrology is a way to take advantage of open windows of opportunity; but we have to have something that says we are prepared (from the past) to succeed in the future. Like the saying goes, timing is everything. Predictive astrology is the art of using the timing reflected in the planetary motions.
Nostradamus was an excellent astrologer. He was able to use astrological charts to predict a year's worth of happenings coming to France. During the 16th Century, things were much simplier, thus easier to predict what would happen at certain times, especially to natives like the king and France itself. Nostradamus was highly accurate with his astrological horoscopes, written in poetic verse style, in publications called Almanachs.
Nostradamus admitted in his letter of Preface to The Prophecies that the almanacs were calculated; but he said The Prophecies were not. He even went so far as to explain that the accuracy he enjoyed making astrological predictions was from something beyond basic abilities to calculate a chart and read some "cookbook" predictions. A "cookbook" prediciton is based on two planets being in a certain alignment, which reflects certain earthly events.
Nostradamus said he trusted his intuition, such that he pondered the charts before him and then did a zen-like blank mind stare, waiting for the voice in his inner mind to give him a picture of what would come. Nostradamus called this inner source the "good Angels" within. It means he used astrological charts to key meditative thoughts to get meaning from planetary alignments.
This means he did not practice some form of magic or alchemy to write astrological predictions. In his Preface, he stated that magic was abhorable and detestable, as well as condemned by the Catholic Church. As for alchemy, this was the practice (or art) that would lead to the science of chemistry. Nostradamus was a botanist (before that name came to be) or a herbalist, meaning he knew some recipes for potions, elixers, remedies, and balms, from using plant pedals and oils, along with some basic minerals, like talc and kaolin. Certainly, Nostradamus did not write The Prophecies because he stared into some bowl of water, while conjuring up dead spirits, seeing halucinations from chewing on mushrooms. There is no evidence that Nostradamus ever did such things, so any attempts to cast that impression are lies.
If one wants to think that alchemy was metaphysical, such that they quested for the "philosopher's stone," so they could turn lead into gold, you need to join the Masons and go through their teachings. In that sense, alchemy is philosophy, not pseudo-science. There we have symbolic reflections also, such that some regular old leadbelly can become elevated to being a wealthy goldbagger. There is nothing chemical involved in that process. Again, Nostradamus was not a mason, and Freemasonry did not develop in France in the 16th Century. Where it developed before the 18th Century was hidden in Central Europe, and Scotland, while practically nonexistant in France.
Nostradamus wrote The Prophecies because he encountered the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. He was chosen as a prophet. He was told what to write. The message was to remain hidden until the time when it would become known had arrived, well after Nostradamus' death. He wrote a true Prophecy, and a true Prophecy does not come through any means other than divine inspiration. I know the Prophecy because I have been led to understand how to read what Nostradamus wrote, for complete meaning. You can read it for meaning too. You can make up your own mind that Nostradamus wrote a true Prophecy, but you have to believe in God and Jesus Christ. Otherwise, it will all still just be unintelligible to you. That is another reflection of self in the mirror. What you see is what you believe.
Oh, by the way, Nostradamus explained in his letter to Henri II that astrology originated in Sumeria (we have found facts that support that). Sumeria is where Abraham lived originally (in Ur). Jesus told Nostradamus that Abraham was the world's first great astrologer. Abraham was a great astrologer because he learned it from the master - God. God invented astrology and gave it to mankind so mankind could learn self-sontrol, while believing in God.
The Jews and Arabs were so good at astrology that the Roman Catholic Church had it banned in the West. That Church had a hard time trusting Jews and Arabs, thus their arts and practices. The past actions by the Church against astrology, Jews, and Arabs have been the cause why so many today do not have a clue what astrology really is about. Astrology, Numerology, and Tarot are all practiced by real students of true Kabballah. They all work best when you know what you are working with and you connect to God for guidance in making them work right.
Let me say a few words about astrology. Most people have the notion that astrology is what they read in the funny papers. Daily horoscopes, as far as I am concerned, are hooey. I have known some fairly reputable astrologers that signed on with newspapers or magazines to write entertainment and let people think that is astrology.
The word horoscope is from the Greek combo Hour-observer. From this origin, the word can be seen as meaning a chart for any hour of time. Individuals get one assigned for that person's birth hour. Then, the planets can again be frozen in time for a comparison of the natal chart. The planetary positions frozen on paper at the birth hour are meshed with a chart for another time after birth. This second chart can be for a projected time into the future; but a time far into the future could have no immediate importance. Therefore, a horoscope is a comparison to the individual's chart (birth chart) and a global chart (where the planets are for everyone - aka transit chart).
In other words, a newspaper horoscope is from only looking at a global chart, with 12 Sun points known (aka the zodiac signs) for comparison. The Sun points are roughly in the center of a 30-degree range, but they can be adjected to fit the degree where an important planet is traveling. This makes an entertainment horoscope mostly misses, but sometimes a strong hit happens. Chance is only at play, but there are some methods applied. Just know that a real horoscope is between a qualified astrologer and you, with an accurate birth chart cast (precise time of birth, location of birth, date of birth).
There is not causal effect argument that can be made as to how astrology works. This means a planet has no effect that will cause you to do something. Even though the Sun can make you sweat and give you a tan or sunburn, and the moon can make the tide go up and down, none of that has anything to do with astrology. Astrology is an art that requires an ability to read how the placement of planets reflects, or mirrors, their relationship to your natal planetary positions. It is all symbolic reflection.
Have you ever gone into the bathroom and looked at yourself in the mirror? Sometimes you see flaws that need to be covered up or doctored. Sometimes you see near perfection, or you see the process that is required to get close to that perfection. Sometimes you see someone tired. Sometimes you see someone unkempt. Sometimes you see someone that no longer looks like the someone you used to see there.
Now, ask yourself this question: Does that mirror cause me to look the way I look? As you come to that simple answer, ask yourself this question next: When I leave the bathroom, if someone else was to come in and looks at the same mirror, would that someone see me? If you were able to come to rational answers to these two questions, you now know see how astrology works like a mirror, reflecting self back at you.
Self is a very important thing to know. Some people know themselves very well, and go about leading their lives in ways that count on their personal strengths, while controlling their personal weaknesses. Those people do not need astrologers, if they are doing all that naturally. However, some people are blind when they look in the mirror. They see someone that is not there, thinking if they deny what they see the world will be fooled if they act like someone else. Those people usually lead lives running into bridk walls a lot. That happens when you are blind and do not admit it. Astrology could help those people (with a qualified astrologer), but health insurace is more likely to pay a shrink to help one face the realities of life.
Before someone can look at a horoscope and expect to have some stranger tell them what their future will be, that someone must first know self. In fact, a psychologist cannot help someone with their past problems if their client will not tell them the truth about themselves. In the same manner, an astrologer cannot really help anyone without knowing the person they are trying to help better.
Truth is another reflection of image. Tell the truth, the truth gets told back to you. Tell a lie and what else can you expect to hear? That is why so many fake astrologers, psychics, Tarot readers, et al get in the news. They lied about being whatever they said they were; but they were lying to liars, so they thought it was okay.
One needs to develop a relationship with a good astrologer, so an astrologer can best learn a client's natural strengths and weaknesses. This is seen by reviewing (sharing) past failures and successes seen reflected in key past charts. Then, when a reflection patterns have yielded a modus operandus, it becomes possible to see how a reflection into the future can be prepared for. However, the future, just like the past and present, happens because we act.
Only rarely does a check come in the mail out of the blue. We have to make things happen, and astrology is a way to take advantage of open windows of opportunity; but we have to have something that says we are prepared (from the past) to succeed in the future. Like the saying goes, timing is everything. Predictive astrology is the art of using the timing reflected in the planetary motions.
Nostradamus was an excellent astrologer. He was able to use astrological charts to predict a year's worth of happenings coming to France. During the 16th Century, things were much simplier, thus easier to predict what would happen at certain times, especially to natives like the king and France itself. Nostradamus was highly accurate with his astrological horoscopes, written in poetic verse style, in publications called Almanachs.
Nostradamus admitted in his letter of Preface to The Prophecies that the almanacs were calculated; but he said The Prophecies were not. He even went so far as to explain that the accuracy he enjoyed making astrological predictions was from something beyond basic abilities to calculate a chart and read some "cookbook" predictions. A "cookbook" prediciton is based on two planets being in a certain alignment, which reflects certain earthly events.
Nostradamus said he trusted his intuition, such that he pondered the charts before him and then did a zen-like blank mind stare, waiting for the voice in his inner mind to give him a picture of what would come. Nostradamus called this inner source the "good Angels" within. It means he used astrological charts to key meditative thoughts to get meaning from planetary alignments.
This means he did not practice some form of magic or alchemy to write astrological predictions. In his Preface, he stated that magic was abhorable and detestable, as well as condemned by the Catholic Church. As for alchemy, this was the practice (or art) that would lead to the science of chemistry. Nostradamus was a botanist (before that name came to be) or a herbalist, meaning he knew some recipes for potions, elixers, remedies, and balms, from using plant pedals and oils, along with some basic minerals, like talc and kaolin. Certainly, Nostradamus did not write The Prophecies because he stared into some bowl of water, while conjuring up dead spirits, seeing halucinations from chewing on mushrooms. There is no evidence that Nostradamus ever did such things, so any attempts to cast that impression are lies.
If one wants to think that alchemy was metaphysical, such that they quested for the "philosopher's stone," so they could turn lead into gold, you need to join the Masons and go through their teachings. In that sense, alchemy is philosophy, not pseudo-science. There we have symbolic reflections also, such that some regular old leadbelly can become elevated to being a wealthy goldbagger. There is nothing chemical involved in that process. Again, Nostradamus was not a mason, and Freemasonry did not develop in France in the 16th Century. Where it developed before the 18th Century was hidden in Central Europe, and Scotland, while practically nonexistant in France.
Nostradamus wrote The Prophecies because he encountered the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. He was chosen as a prophet. He was told what to write. The message was to remain hidden until the time when it would become known had arrived, well after Nostradamus' death. He wrote a true Prophecy, and a true Prophecy does not come through any means other than divine inspiration. I know the Prophecy because I have been led to understand how to read what Nostradamus wrote, for complete meaning. You can read it for meaning too. You can make up your own mind that Nostradamus wrote a true Prophecy, but you have to believe in God and Jesus Christ. Otherwise, it will all still just be unintelligible to you. That is another reflection of self in the mirror. What you see is what you believe.
Oh, by the way, Nostradamus explained in his letter to Henri II that astrology originated in Sumeria (we have found facts that support that). Sumeria is where Abraham lived originally (in Ur). Jesus told Nostradamus that Abraham was the world's first great astrologer. Abraham was a great astrologer because he learned it from the master - God. God invented astrology and gave it to mankind so mankind could learn self-sontrol, while believing in God.
The Jews and Arabs were so good at astrology that the Roman Catholic Church had it banned in the West. That Church had a hard time trusting Jews and Arabs, thus their arts and practices. The past actions by the Church against astrology, Jews, and Arabs have been the cause why so many today do not have a clue what astrology really is about. Astrology, Numerology, and Tarot are all practiced by real students of true Kabballah. They all work best when you know what you are working with and you connect to God for guidance in making them work right.
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