You name it, the 16th-century prophet supposedly foresaw it – right down to the death of Elizabeth II, which has made a bestseller of a book interpreting his cryptic verses.
Nostradamus has fascinated people with his predictions for centuries now. While they were made in the early 1500s, some believe them to be very close to contemporary events. As we enter 2023, the prophecies of Nostradamus are being consulted to foresee what the new year might hold for us.
Following the accurate prediction that “Queen Elizabeth will die, circa 2022, at the age of around 96,” the sales of the book ‘Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future’ has gone up.
The famous sixteenth-century French astrologer Michel de Nostredame, who originally wrote and published his prophecies in a book entitled ‘Centuries’ in 1555, predicted the Queen’s death more than 450 years ago.
Michel de Nostredame, also known as Nostradamus, was born on 14 December 1503. As a very young boy, Nostradamus stood out among his peers for his exceptional memory. His friends at the University of Avignon nicknamed him “the young astrologer” because of his love for celestial phenomena such as shooting stars, meteors, stars, fog, and more.
Though he was forced to leave the institution with the arrival of the plague, he quickly re-enrolled at the University of Montpellier to obtain a doctorate in medicine. He practiced all over the south of France as a doctor and apothecary in the 1530s. A few years later, the death of his wife led him to travel throughout France.
Mario Reading’s ‘Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future,’ released in 2005, is said to be the only Nostradamus book that deals exclusively with the French astrologer’s future prophecies.
It uses Mario’s theory that the quatrains written by Nostradamus are numbers indexed to correlate with dates, reports Wales Online. According to the reports by the DailyMail, a week prior to September 8 when Her Majesty died, the book sold five copies. But the week after that till September 17, a total of 8,000 copies got sold which moved the book to the top of the paperback charts.
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Nostradamus is sometimes referred to as the “Prophet of Doom” because his predictions often result in catastrophic events like war and death. Although it is impossible to say whether Nostradamus’s cryptic text accurately guesses the events of the modern world, many people still find it fun to buy his book and read the predictions the French philosopher and doctor made back during his days treating people during the Black Death.
One famous prediction of the Nostradamus is the prediction of climate change. In 1555, he predicted that the world’s climates would warm up and that the soaring temperatures would “half cook” all the fish in the ocean.
“Because of the solar heat on the sea/ Of Euboea the fishes half cooked/ the inhabitants will come to cut them/When the biscuit will fail Rhodes and Genoa.”
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