In the centuries since his death in 1566, people have credited Nostradamus with predicting pivotal events in history, from the French Revolution to the rise of Adolf Hitler to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and even the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. His book, The Prophecies, was published in 1555, and has since earned him worldwide fame. According to Nostradamus, the world is slated to end in the year 3797.
Nostradamus was born Michel de Nostradame on December 14 or 21, 1503, in the south of France in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. He was one of nine children born to Reyniere de St-Remy and her husband Jaume de Nostradame, a well-to-do grain dealer and part-time notary of Jewish descent.
Little is known of his childhood, but evidence indicates he was very intelligent as he quickly advanced through school. Early in his life, he was tutored by his maternal grandfather, Jean de St. Remy, who saw great intellect and potential in his grandson.
At the age of 14, Nostradame entered the University of Avignon to study medicine. He was forced to leave after only one year, however, due to an outbreak of the bubonic plague. According to his own account, he traveled throughout the countryside during this time, researching herbal remedies and working as an apothecary.
In 1522 he entered the University of Montpellier to complete his doctorate in medicine. He sometimes expressed dissension with the teachings of the Catholic priests, who dismissed his notions of astrology.
Over the next several years, Nostradamus traveled throughout France and Italy, treating victims of the plague. There was no known remedy at the time; most doctors relied on potions made of mercury, the practice of bloodletting and dressing patients in garlic-soaked robes.
In time, Nostradamus found himself somewhat of a local celebrity for his treatments and received financial support from many of the citizens of Provence. 1n 1531, he was invited to work with a leading scholar of the time, Jules-Cesar Scaliger in Agen, in southwestern France.
In 1538, an offhanded remark about a religious statue resulted in charges of heresy against Nostradamus. When ordered to appear before the Inquisition, he wisely chose to leave Provence to travel for several years through Italy, Greece and Turkey.
During his travels to the ancient mystery schools, it is believed that Nostradamus experienced a psychic awakening. One of the legends of Nostradamus says that, during his travels in Italy, he came upon a group of Franciscan monks, identifying one as the future Pope. The monk, called Felice Peretti, was eventually ordained Pope Sixtus V in 1585, fulfilling the prediction of Nostradamus.
In 1550, Nostradamus wrote his first almanac of astrological information and predictions of the coming year. Almanacs were very popular at the time, as they provided useful information for farmers and merchants and contained entertaining bits of local folklore and predictions for the coming year.
Nostradamus began writing about his visions and incorporating them into his first almanac. The publication received a great response, and served to spread his name all across France, which encouraged Nostradamus to write more.
Nostradamus ran into some controversy with his predictions, as some thought he was a servant of the devil, and others said he was a fake or insane. However, many more believed the prophecies were spiritually inspired.
Nostradamus suffered from gout and arthritis for most of his adulthood. In the last years of his life, the condition turned into edema or dropsy, where abnormal amounts of fluid accumulate beneath the skin or within cavities of the body. Without treatment, the condition could result in congestive heart failure.
Most of the quatrains Nostradamus composed during his life dealt with disasters such as earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, battles and plagues. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history including the French Revolution; the rise of Napoleon and Hitler; the development of the atomic bomb; the assassination of JFK and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Many people firmly believe that astrology is capable of predicting our destiny. And other people believe that astrology is a big hoax without any scientific basis. Today I am going to prove that both beliefs are wrong. So, can astrology work?
It turns out that for hundreds of years there was actually no difference between astrology and astronomy. In fact, important figures like Ptolemy, Galileo, Kepler or Brahe, some of whom we consider the fathers of astronomy today, believed in astrology. After all, they had no better scientific alternatives. But around the 17th century, the two began to diverge, and today they mean very different things.
More than 2,500 years ago, in ancient Babylon, the first astrologers were observers who found patterns in the sky. They saw that those bright dots did not change randomly, but were repeated every night, and they gradually moved across the sky, night after night, until returning to the same place after a certain amount of time, which used to coincide with about 12 moons.
They also realized that what was happening on Earth changed with the same periodicity as the objects in the sky: There were hotter periods, and colder ones, seasons with more rain and others with less. And for each of those eras on Earth, the sky displayed a characteristic set of stars.
So far, astrology was not only very useful, but it fits in perfectly with modern science. You see, where the astrologers of that time went wrong was in assuming causality: Upon seeing this correlation between patterns in the sky and phenomena on Earth, they concluded that the stars caused these phenomena. In other words, they believed that the stars, whatever they were, had an influence on the world and on us.
But what is much more important is that the axis of rotation of the Earth has changed its orientation. So much so that your zodiac sign is no longer what you would have been assigned 2,500 years ago, but should be the one from the previous month.
The star that has the greatest influence on our lives is, of course, the Sun, whose gravitational attraction keeps the Earth in its annual orbit. Secondly, the Moon also has an important gravitational influence and is the main cause of the tides.
And this is the end of the list of relevant interactions between the stars and human life. The gravitational attraction, as well as the radiation that reaches us from the other planets and stars, are both much weaker.
Imagine we replaced Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth after the Sun, with TON 618, the largest supermassive black hole observed so far in the entire Universe (about 60 billion times more massive than the Sun).
Doing the math, the gravitational attraction that the Earth would feel towards that enormous beast would be similar to the attraction that the Earth feels towards the Sun. So we would have succeeded: we would have objects beyond the Solar System exerting an enormous influence on us. But would this help astrologers predict the outcome of your date tonight?
In other words, if the stars had a greater influence on the Earth, astrological predictions would not be easier, quite the contrary: Predicting the movement of the Earth, as well as our adventures on it, would be even more difficult.
Something similar occurs with astrology. As a source of entertainment, or to satisfy certain esoteric curiosities, it can be a good option. But if you need advice on important decisions in your life, remember that astrology simply does not work for these types of predictions. The position of the stars bears absolutely no relevance to your life. Astrological forecasts are simply no better than the ones you can get by tossing a coin, or rolling a dice, or asking your cat.