As has been pointed out in earlier instalments, modern astronomers have tended to dismiss the sensational claims that have appeared on the Internet in recent years associated with comets as yet further examples of public ignorance, or even hysteria. But one person who did consider comets to be a potential threat to the earth, and […]

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Nostradamus did not always speak in riddles. We still have copies of several of his letters, in which he wrote explicitly in prose about the events he predicted would occur in the “latter days” spoken of in the Bible. In a letter to his son César, dated March 1st, 1555, Nostradamus wrote: “But my son, […]

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Although the prophetic quatrains written by Nostradamus are frustratingly difficult to understand, especially when the events portrayed in them have not yet occurred, when seen in retrospect, many of his verses have proved to be astonishingly accurate. Here are some examples of his successful quatrains, with interpretations provided by Erika Cheetham as quoted from her book […]

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Before we can hope to understand the quatrains that Nostradamus wrote, we need to understand the circumstances of the times in which he lived, the character of intellectual thought at the time, and the historical background against which these quatrains were composed. Nostradamus lived his life during that period of European history known as the […]

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The Life of Nostradamus  Michel de Nostradame, or Nostradamus as he chose to be called in later life, was born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France on December 14, 1503. Although his parents were Jewish, they converted to the Catholic faith when Michel was 9 years old, and for the rest of his life […]

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