Even if I were the reincarnation of Nostradamus, there is no internal omniscience on my part with which to bypass the prophecies for the plain facts that might be desired. Like a preternatural being sent magically into the past on the old "Bewitched" series, I have only my wits to rely on in assessing these French writings, nothing more esoterically substantial; and the seer himself is not present to have his arm twisted into providing more. A limited ephemeris is inadequate for the judicial astrology being considered to be discernable: an astrological program where geographical coordinates and accurate time-zone information can be input to generate charts that can be animated is typically required; all sorts of quirks have been noted, including named celestial bodies being set for a summer corresponding with their positioning at the ends and midpoint of a particular sign. The main challenge is overcoming my own presumptions from reading the iconic lines, constantly testing my interpretations by learning about the specific realities of events, where extreme logic is applied. Nostradamus will be proven correct, I am merely attempting to demonstrate that, while reaping whatever benefits can be acquired from his extraordinary contribution. So I refrain from expressing my personal feelings as a substitute for genuine prophecy: I am not the unimpeachable source to be questioned, but the research-and-assessment conduit that could facilitate the unfolding of elusive meanings by delving where others retreat.
Various End-Of-Age scenarios from reputable sources have been examined, and the opening of an Abyss is a common feature, along with a New Martyrdom, and a Day of Blood where the wicked slaughter each other, as the hybrid Nephilim did prior to the Deluge: as such there is no clear opening for humanity to destroy itself through nuclear annihilation; the Chastisement via VI.35 appears to be a solar flare targeting the Great Plains region, the foretold time arriving in a few years. The destruction of the Japanese cities with atomic bombs in 1945 set up negative karma, which the Hopis viewed as a 'Gourd of Ashes' being dropped (there was a Bucket planetary configuration), whose karmic backlash would affect the nation that accomplished the dropping; the Hopi further foretold a political movement formed with the wearing of red hats would abuse the solar esoteric power to affect a Third Shaking, recognizable as the next significant horror after the two world wars. So atomic weaponry is not viewed in prophecy as the ultimate power, but an egregious manifestation of iniquity that will eventually be punished. The Christian battle is to overthrow the demonic impetus towards self-annihilation, where pivotal damage to certain cities is sustained, in the movement towards the Seventh Trumpet bringing Messianic Reign.
The typical approach to locations in the French prophecies is to establish the overt geography, then proclaim the sense of a scenario is clear from that superficial research: rather than providing clarity and affirming the predictions are genuine, this ignorant approach has subjected them to the sort of literal interpretation that rarely yields much relevant meaning.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A52521.0001.001/1:13?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
<< XIII. French.
Les Exilez autour de la Sologne,
Conduits de nuict pour marcher en l'Auxois,
Deux de Modene truculent de Bologne,
Mis discouverts par feu de Burancois.
English.
The banished about Sologne,
Being conducted by night to go into Auxois,
Two of Modena, the cruel of Bolonia,
Shall be discovered by the fire of Burancois.
ANNOT.
Sologne is a Province in France, between the Perche and the Main. Auxois is a Countrey in the South of France, so called of its chief Town called Auch, the seat of an Archbishop. Modena is a Town in Italy, and Bolonia another not far from it. Bu∣ranceis is a part of the Province of Dauphini. The meaning then of this Prophecy is, this being known, the Reader may easily find out the rest of the sense. >>
The final sentence there is disingenuous, since nothing has been clarified by the geographical identifications.
Concerned now with only the second half, my own translation --
Two of Modena truculent for Bologna,
Set discovered through the fire of Buzancais
The interpretation should be focused on hagiology, rather than geography, since timing is thusly frequently obscured.
Buzancais was known for a food riot in 1847, with half-starved peasants intercepting grain carts, ultimately suppressed by three rioters being guillotined, after a local elite retaliating with gunfire being beaten to death by the mob caused the remainder to cower. Instead the date of 9 January is inferred via feast for Saint Honorius of Buzancais (d. 1250), a cattle merchant who financially assisted young girls, but was ultimately killed by thieves he had reprimanded.
January Ninth 2023 was the day about 1200 insurrectionists were arrested in Brasilia, however the fire in IX.13 may have been supplied by an X1.9-class solar flare from an active sunspot (AR3184) facing Earth that day, causing radio blackouts for parts of South America; the same sunspot was responsible for an X1.2-class solar flare 5 January 2023 (day of the funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) - an X2 solar flare is four times more powerful than an M5 flare.
Line 3 employs a subtle trick for the 'Two of Modena': the town's patron is Saint Geminiano (312-397), whose name suggests the Gemini twins; although the citizens of Modena overwhelmingly wanted Geminiano for their bishop, he felt unworthy and fled - he had to be found and persuaded. Renowned as an exorcist, Geminiano performed this service successfully for the daughter of Emperor Jovian. In Modena on his 31 January feast there is a special Mass, and his crypt is opened to public view. When Attila the Hun threatened to invade Modena in 452, Geminiano was invoked for protection, and a thick fog conveniently blanketed the city so it was safely bypassed. January 31 2023 was the gap-day between the Three Holy Hierarchs including Basil the Great of 30 January (V.83, VI.78), and the predominantly German thunderstorm with two tornadoes on 1 February 2023. Thus the harsh (or truculent) storm razing a pine forest in northern Germany was indicated as precursor for a later event associated with a Bologna date.
Saint Catherine of Bologna (1413-1463) was abbess, artist, mystic and prophetess, writing about Seven Weapons in spiritual warfare; she was buried without being embalmed or placed in a coffin - however eighteen days later, sweet fragrance and reported miracles at the gravesite provoked her being exhumed. Catherine was found incorrupt, not having decomposed, as she remains to this day, seated in a chair behind glass at the Poor Clares chapel, her skin blackened by exposure to smoke. Some of the holy teachers chosen as heroes for the crowd in the Sgt Pepper album cover tableau were similarly incorrupt, as Paul McCartney would tell Alan Aldridge, they had 'transcended their bodies through planes of consciousness.' The feast for Catherine is 9 March, which in 2023 is the day before the presumably fateful Saturn-Moon-Vertex Grand Trine for Geneva.
As for the grouping of Vesta-Jupiter-Chiron around 14 degrees Aries during the 10 March 2023 11:41 pm CET Saturn-Moon-Vertex Grand Trine, the focus seems to be on Vesta in V.65 and VI.19. Lines 2 and 3 of V.65 --
...Des principaux de l'affaire caches,
Et dame en braise plus ne sera en vue...
...With the principals of the affair hidden,
And the lady on burning coals no longer being in view...
When that 10 March 2023 Grand Trine occurs, the converged celestial bodies including Vesta will be beneath the Ecliptic, thus not visible locally. The convergent grouping could be the 'affair,' with Vesta's inclusion implicit.
The split-chronology of VI.19 had its latter portion previously fulfilled.
La vraie flamme engloutira la dame
Qui voudra mettre les Innocents a feu
Pres de l'assaut l'exercite s'enflamme
Quand dans Seville monstre en boeuf sera vu
The lady to be engulfed by the true flame
Who wants the Innocents put to fire, not relief;
Near assault the exercise itself enflamed,
While in Seville a monster will be seen amidst beef
From 30 April 2000:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.prophecies.nostradamus/c/PiBbim1r5OY/m/mMDIQl02CWcJ
<< Quand dans Seville monstre en boeuf sera vu
When in Seville a monster will be seem amidst the beef
Perhaps the "monster" here is not the golden-red star, but this piece of
news about a Good Friday procession 21 April:
"Other processions were held around the globe, including Seville, Spain,
where a man with a large knife triggered a stampede among the spectators
that injured about 30 people, none severely."
People stampeding like cattle could provide clear fulfillment! >>
From 11 December 1999:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.prophecies.nostradamus/c/JBy4qz34JCY/m/Jmt2kx4V6D0J
<< Nouvelle et pluie subite, impetueuse
Empechera subit deux exercites;
Pierre ciel, feux faire la mer pierreuse,
La mort de sept terre et marin subites.
New and sudden, impetuous rain
Will suddenly halt two military exercises;
Heaven stone, fires will make the sea stony,
The death of seven, suddenly on land and sea.
Notice that II.18 bears an enumeration precisely matching the number of
people on board the helicopter crash near San Diego, and that in the
last line we are given the exact number of dead, eleven having been
immediately rescued. The Latin word "exercites," meaning army, may have
been used to suggest a military exercise.
Thursday, 9 December, at about 1:16pm PST, a CH-46 helicopter carrying
18 Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit attached to Camp
Pendleton, 36 miles north of San Diego, crashed into the Pacific Ocean
while en route from the Bon Homme Richard (an amphibious assault ship)
to the USS Pecos (a Navy oiler). While 11 were quickly brought to
safety, seven remain missing...
Friday, 10 December, around midnight GMT, a C-130 helicopter carrying 96
from the 61st Aircraft Squadron of the Little Rock Air Force Base
Arkansas, crashed at a Kuwaiti airport while on a routine internal
mission. The crash landing was due to sudden BAD WEATHER, as well as a
SUDDEN malfunction disenabling the landing gear. Three died in the
crash, and 16 were wounded. >>
The assault mentioned in VI.19 line 3 was apparently the 11 September 2001 attacks, giving ample warning if interpreted correctly.
The manner in which Vesta becomes 'engulfed' during the 10 March 2023 Saturnin-Lunar-Vertex Grand Trine likely has to do with the movement of the Part of Fortune from about 9 degrees Aries towards Vesta, which is reached 11 March 2023 12:07 am CET, less than half an hour after the Grand Trine peaks: thus Jupiter-Chiron is to one side of Vesta, with Fortune closing in from the other side, providing the enigmatic situation of fire goddess 'Vesta being engulfed.'