Quatrain and Almanac for 2004
Peter Lemesurier
THE NOSTRAMADUS QUATRAIN AND ALMANAC FOR 2004
transcribed by
Peter Lemmerdeur
with careful academic analyses by the best-known
commentators.
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Every November the late seer Nostramadus somehow manages to leave an
annual summary verse and prophetic almanac on my computer. This year
he has done it again. This one is for 2004.
Here is the quatrain, in his usual 16th-century French:
Quatrain sommaire pour l'an 2004
Entre deux fluves le cas sera doubteux:
Vertu lunaire croystra, et sol baissé.
Cité lessive effroy, vengeance à eux:
Le Buysson jeune sera bien tost jugé.
This is a curious piece of verse, and its meaning is not necessarily
easy to decipher. However, various well-known commentators have, as
usual, done their best to translate and interpret it...
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Psychically received from the late Erica Diddlem:
I have not encountered this quatrain before, but I shall of course
include it in my latest book, The Absolutely Apocryphal Prophecies of
Nostramadus. Here is my translation of it:
Entering two rivers the case shall be doubtful:
Lunar virtue shall grow, and the soil subside.
The city shall be afraid of doing the washing,
vengeance to them:
The yellow bush shall be judged as having been
turned into toast.
This seems to be a warning to travellers not to get their suitcases
wet because the ground beneath them is liable to slide into one of two
rivers as the moon (and so presumably the tide) comes up. Naturally
the clothes inside will get so dirty that the nearest launderette will
be unwilling to clean them. In fact they will turn quite nasty about
it. Then it looks as if the travellers will set a bush alight in order
to get their clothes dry again, though this seems to me a pretty
drastic thing to do. The ‘yellow’ is an interesting detail, suggesting
that it must be autumn. However, since this verse doesn’t mention the
Kennedys, I suspect that it is a failed quatrain.
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Telepathically received from the late Henry C Robbers:
I am not around much any more, so haven’t previously seen this
quatrain, but the last line obviously reveals that there shall be a
repeat of the biblical episode of Moses and the Burning Bush.
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From the eminent commentator John Vogue:
I think Erica has probably missed a trick or two, and Henry C Robbers
seems to be rather out of touch. My own translation (which of course
merely represents my own view) is rather different, so here goes:
It will be difficult to decide which of two rivers is the best (the
Hudson or the East River). Lunar virtue shall grow (i.e. silver will
gain value on Wall Street) and solar go down (i.e. gold will decrease
in value). The city shall be afraid of washing (i.e. the white robes
of Muslim clerics), vengeance to them (the war on terror will
succeed). The young bush (probably those bushes among which Osama bin
Laden was shown walking with a companion in a recent Al Qaeda video)
will very soon be judged (i.e. he will be captured and taken to
Guantanamo Bay).
Thus, it can readily be seen how Nostramadus was above all concerned,
as I have been telling my faithful followers ever since ... er...
September 2001, with the 9/11 attack on New York and its consequences
for America.
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From the well-known psychic commentator Dolores Gunn:
Not really knowing French, I psychically regressed my long-suffering
collaborator Beryl to the 16th century to contact Nostramadus directly
and ask him to comment on Erica’s translation - as you would. To start
with, Beryl found Nostramadus hard to locate. She said that he didn’t
seem to be at eye-level. At last she found him, though.
B. Ah, there he is. He’s on the floor - in his bath!
D. I didn’t think they had baths in those days.
B. He says he has one twice a year, whether he needs it or not!
D. Ughh! Go on, then. What’s happening?
B. He’s sitting in some sort of tub in the kitchen, with a woman in
attendance.
D. Who is it?
B. I can’t see. He says something like ‘Geoffroi’.
D. But that’s a man’s name! Read him Erica’s translation.
B. He says that’s all he needs. Who is this Erica woman anyway?
D. Tell him she does translations of his prophecies.
B. He says, ‘Is that what you call them?’
D. OK. Read him the French, then. What’s ‘entre deux fluves’?
B. He says ‘Dry land, presumably.’
D. Hmm! That’s not what Erica says. What does ‘Le Buysson jeune’
mean?
B. It’s a young bush.
D. What does he mean - ‘a young bush’?
B. You know, one of those small green things that grow out of the
ground. Haven’t you ever learned anything?
D. All right, no need to go on about it. What about ‘vertu
lunaire’?
B. He says ‘virtue is power’.
D. Hmm! That’s not what I’ve heard!
B. And he says ‘lunaire’ is to do with the moon. He often uses
the moon to stand for Mahomet and his followers.
D. Not one of those terrorists, surely?
B. Now he’s saying something like ‘On-curdle Osho, Dan!’
D. Dan? You mean there are three of them in the tub? Dan,
Geoffroi and Nostramadus? OK, so I have heard a nursery-rhyme about
something of the sort, but what sort of a household is Nostramadus
running, I wonder? ‘On-curdle Osho...’ - it sounds as if the three of
them are trying to conjure up Rajneesh. John Vogue will be pleased.
B. Now he’s saying something like ‘Well, Grondrad, bang?’
D. Ah, Grondrad must be the woman’s name. Unless she’s in the
tub, too, of course...
B. Now he says ‘Mash me, Splonsh!
D. Well, really!! Who’s Splonsh?
B. ‘May shows’, he says. He sort of hisses the last letter.
D. May as well??
At that I thought we had better close the session before things got
too indecent. I did look up Mahomet afterwards in the encyclopedia,
though. Apparently he was the founder of Islam. I hear he was a
Muslim, too...
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My own comments and analysis:
I’m afraid that none of the above sheds much real light on the verse -
as usual. Poor Erica clearly has not the slightest idea of the
meanings of most of the words, while all John seems to want to do is
read his own ideas into the verse. It’s a good job no other
Nostramadus commentators ever do that! As for Dolores and Beryl, their
interpretations of Nostramadus’s French comments are laughable:
‘Geoffroi’ is of course ‘J’ai froid!’ (I’m cold); ‘On-curdle Osho,
Dan’ is ‘Encore de l’eau chaude, Anne!’ (More hot water, Anne!);
‘Well, Grondrad, bang’ is ‘Où est le grand drap de bain?’ (Where’s the
big bath-towel?); ‘Mash me, Splonsh’ is ‘Ma chemise blanche’ (My white
shirt); and ‘May shows’ is ‘Mes chausses’ (My breeches’).
All of which at least suggests that Beryl is at least in touch
with somebody French, even if not Nostramadus!
As for the verse itself, ‘entre deux fluves’ is 16-century
French for ‘between two rivers’, which is the literal meaning of the
Greek word ‘Mesopotamia’, the old name for Iraq. ‘Vertu lunaire’ is
‘lunar power’ - by which Nostramadus normally meant the power of
Islam, because of its crescent moon symbol. ‘Sol’ (Latin for the sun)
normally stands for the Christian West, simply because its holy day is
Sunday. ‘Cité lessive’ is obviously ‘washing-town’ -- which has to be
a reference to a city called... Washington (?). And ‘Le Buysson jeune’
is... well, presumably ‘the young Bush’, or Bush the Younger, whoever
that may be.
So, given that any proper translation of the verse needs
itself to be in verse, here is my suggested translation. I have no
idea what the last line could possibly be suggesting, though - I’m
afraid I’m not really into offering ‘interpretations’ these days:
The outcome in Iraq in doubt or fudged,
Islamic power shall grow, the West’s go down.
Vengeance is theirs, much fear in Washing-Town:
Young Bush for what he did shall soon be judged.
Peter Lemmerdeur
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At the same time as his quatrain for 2004, Nostramadus has also
managed to get his prophetic Almanac for the coming year on to my
computer. How he does it I’m not sure. But, as in previous years, he
has actually managed to write it in English - which is something he
could not have done when he was alive. However, the style is pretty
typical...
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Almanac for 2004
This year shall see heat and cold, floods and droughts, earthquakes
and fires, war and peace.
For the winter:
With Mars (and, later, Venus) in Aries, war and the love of war shall
never be far away during this season.
The birthday of an ancient prophet shall be celebrated, but on the
wrong date: visions of the dead seer shall flicker through the ether.
The coming together of families shall result in their splitting apart.
In the wars between governments and suppliers of information, both
shall be revealed to be as untrustworthy as the other.
Prices shall increase and values decrease.
Agreement among many shall result in disagreement among even more.
Many who thought to lay up treasure on earth shall discover that they
have laid up poverty instead.
Storms shall rage, both on land and at sea.
A large vessel shall disappear and never be heard of again.
Freezing weather shall affect lands more used to warmth.
An old entertainer with either blue or brown eyes shall die, to much
public grief.
One who thought to wage war shall be forced to wage peace instead.
Many shall die in order that they may have life more abundantly.
The new era shall continue with many a new error.
Old diseases shall return, and new ones multiply.
A sudden confrontation shall threaten war.
Failure to find what is sought shall bring shame to those seeking it.
For the spring:
The chart for the spring shows both Venus and Mars in Taurus, but
later, with Mars and Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter in Virgo,
preparations for war shall develop into war by sea under a new ruler.
Early warmth shall cause many crops to be destroyed by frost.
Many who went out shall not return.
An earthquake shall kill many.
The fugitives shall elude capture.
A conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Pisces in May presages dire
military developments.
New hopes shall be dashed by old attitudes, and the young shall be
frustrated by their elders.
False reasons for war shall become true reasons for dismissal.
Disease shall bring many deaths in its wake, and many of those seeking
health shall discover that they have damaged it irreparably.
Drugs shall increase their hold, and crime increase, as a direct
result of governments’ attempts to ban them.
A great scandal shall rock the political world, but then things shall
continue just as before.
Many who have eyes but do not see shall be newly shocked by behaviour
that has always been normal, but remain totally unshocked by behaviour
that has historically been abnormal.
The innocent shall be persecuted, but the guilty shall be released and
praised.
Nations seeking to price out other nations shall discover that they in
turn have been priced out.
The dumb shall not speak a lot, but money shall speak louder than
words.
For the summer:
As a result of the chart for the summer, with the sun, Mercury, Mars
and Saturn all in Pisces, matters watery shall be to the fore, and
slipperiness shall everywhere prevail.
Many shall revolt and protest, whether out of conviction or habit.
Many of the rich shall go out in search of contentment and return poor
and discontented.
A meteor shall startle many.
A conjunction of Mercury and Mars in Gemini in June betokens a war of
words between two allies, while a further conjunction of Mercury and
Saturn in the same month, this time in Pisces, indicates a disastrous
outcome at sea, mitigated only by a conjunction of Venus and Saturn in
September.
Many who went forth to fight for freedom shall wish that they
themselves had the freedom to come home.
Fires shall rage, and strange signs be seen in the sky.
Violent storms shall help to extinguish some of the fires just
mentioned, but not before much damage has been done.
A nation that has exported terror shall discover that terror has come
home to roost.
An event in the heavens shall result in great changes here on earth.
New planets shall be discovered, except by those who thought that they
knew about them already.
A great metallic bird shall fall from the sky, killing many either
within or without.
For the autumn or fall:
The chart shows Mars and Jupiter in conjunction in Virgo. O how the
new ruler shall go forth to fight!
A new Saladin shall destroy the fortresses of the Crusaders.
Financial problems shall threaten the livelihoods of many.
Drought shall affect many places more used to water.
Harvests shall be better than expected, but only where they were
expected to be poor.
Famine shall spread, and many shall die.
New diseases shall arise and old ones return.
Students shall discover that the world is a harsh place.
Warlike activities shall decrease somewhat.
Cold weather shall strike too early for some, while for others the
summer shall go on forever.
Seeing that the young are revolting, the old shall remark that they
always knew they were.
Some shall predict the end of the world, while carefully planning what
to do after it.
A great religious leader shall die, and others shall betray their
religion in the rush to replace him.
Many shall look forward to a great festival which, in the event, shall
bring much travel, great disappointment and a new coming together of
families that shall bring about a new falling apart.
Plans shall be made for a great mortality of strange-looking birds and
a proliferation of even stranger-looking men in beards and unusual
costumes.
The Earth shall continue to turn and the heavens to rotate, despite
the efforts of many to stop time dead in its tracks.
Many shall believe what is incredible, and refuse to believe what is
true. Words shall seduce the gullible, and silence not be remarked by
the sceptics. It is from this that all the year’s greatest woes shall
proceed.
--
Peter
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