Quatrains Fulfilled
Unlike my blog articles where I speculate about whether a prophecy by Nostradamus (or anyone else) is in the process of being fulfilled or not, this page deals with those quatrains that I strongly believe have been fulfilled in their entirety. These will apply largely to the current century (21st Century), although I may feature some from the decade of the 1990's.
There are many articles and many opinions about the failure of Nostradamus to predict anything in our time (or for the last twenty years or so for that matter). Amazingly enough, a number of Nostradamus quatrains have actually been fulfilled in our century ... prophecies I wondered about but didn't do enough research to confirm, as well as prophecies I failed to take note of at all, forgot about, or dismissed as "almost but not quite."
The quatrains I am about to discuss were fulfilled in their entirety, every sentence, every line ... every word. In some cases I did not know they were fulfilled because some of the events in them were NOT reported by most news services until YEARS later.
There are many articles and many opinions about the failure of Nostradamus to predict anything in our time (or for the last twenty years or so for that matter). Amazingly enough, a number of Nostradamus quatrains have actually been fulfilled in our century ... prophecies I wondered about but didn't do enough research to confirm, as well as prophecies I failed to take note of at all, forgot about, or dismissed as "almost but not quite."
The quatrains I am about to discuss were fulfilled in their entirety, every sentence, every line ... every word. In some cases I did not know they were fulfilled because some of the events in them were NOT reported by most news services until YEARS later.
Masked and Solitary: The Negative Impact of Novel Coronavirus on Society
Nostradamus, Quatrain 2.10
Avant long temps le tout sera rangé, nous esperons un siecle bien senestre,
L'estat des masques & des seuls bien changé. Peu trouveront qu'à son rang veuille estre.
Before long all will be set in order, we anticipate a very sinister century, the state of the masked
and solitary ones much changed. Few will be found who want to be in their place.
Avant long temps le tout sera rangé, nous esperons un siecle bien senestre,
L'estat des masques & des seuls bien changé. Peu trouveront qu'à son rang veuille estre.
Before long all will be set in order, we anticipate a very sinister century, the state of the masked
and solitary ones much changed. Few will be found who want to be in their place.
January 24, 2021: Considering that this situation is now entering its second year, and still runs the risk of continuing into 2022 or later according to some medical experts and journalists, is it likely that Nostradamus would have NOT seen this event?
A time when everyone is wearing a face mask or being coerced into wearing one, staying alone as much as possible, separate from loved ones, even dying loved ones, due to a pandemic and new government policies to deal with it ... not only in the US but in most nations in the world?
Let's face it ... if even as late as 2019, even only a few months before the first reports of the virus emerged, we could have seen a photo from 2020 of nearly all of us, even our leaders, walking about, biking, hiking, shopping, conducting what businesses have been allowed to operate (or able to remain in business), wearing surgical-style face masks we would have thought it was a very bizarre and gruesome joke.
Prior to the current novel coronavirus pandemic, most of us had seen photos from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic or at least glanced at them. But often what we had seen documented were the interiors of large hospitals with many beds filled with the sick and dying and nurses scurrying about. Unless we had some reason to dig deeper into the subject, we never saw the people wearing masks on streets and in trolley cars. And if we did, often it would be a percentage of people wearing them, despite the mask mandates that were put into effect at the time. We shrugged the sight of it off and thought "how odd."
Mask wearing now is nearly universal and far fewer are the "slackers" of today.
The pandemic and mask comparisons aside, there are other major differences between life in 1918 and 1919 compared to life in 2020 and, thus far, 2021.
A time when everyone is wearing a face mask or being coerced into wearing one, staying alone as much as possible, separate from loved ones, even dying loved ones, due to a pandemic and new government policies to deal with it ... not only in the US but in most nations in the world?
Let's face it ... if even as late as 2019, even only a few months before the first reports of the virus emerged, we could have seen a photo from 2020 of nearly all of us, even our leaders, walking about, biking, hiking, shopping, conducting what businesses have been allowed to operate (or able to remain in business), wearing surgical-style face masks we would have thought it was a very bizarre and gruesome joke.
Prior to the current novel coronavirus pandemic, most of us had seen photos from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic or at least glanced at them. But often what we had seen documented were the interiors of large hospitals with many beds filled with the sick and dying and nurses scurrying about. Unless we had some reason to dig deeper into the subject, we never saw the people wearing masks on streets and in trolley cars. And if we did, often it would be a percentage of people wearing them, despite the mask mandates that were put into effect at the time. We shrugged the sight of it off and thought "how odd."
Mask wearing now is nearly universal and far fewer are the "slackers" of today.
The pandemic and mask comparisons aside, there are other major differences between life in 1918 and 1919 compared to life in 2020 and, thus far, 2021.
Most apparent is the rioting and violence in many of our major US cities, especially Portland, and overall lack of civility. People were kinder in 1918; we had just fought a terrible war and were glad that that, at least, was over and our soldiers returned home. People were patriotic. People did what could be done to reduce the pandemic casualties, such as wearing a mask, which was itself viewed as patriotic and not a burden placed on people by oppressive government officials.
To put it bluntly, the people of America in 1918 did not have a radical leftist revolution in the making in their major cities nor was the nation a nation divided. This extra element makes the times of this pandemic much worse than the times of the Spanish Flu.
Our lives are indeed being set to order, organized, by medical experts and by policies enabled by the local, state, and federal governments, here in the US, and by governing systems in other countries such as the UK and Canada.
This makes the many of us who are widowed, divorced, or single and un-partnered not only masked, but truly "solitary." Families and couples are "isolated" from other people ... or they are supposed to be. Together we are all "masked" or "masked and solitary." For the purposes of the quatrain this is still properly stated as "masked and solitary" (it covers everyone).
For centuries, Nostradamus commentators, myself included, who attempted to interpret the above prophecy all believed that the quatrains containing references to "des seuls" or "the sole ones" or "the solitary ones" were religious orders of monks or nuns. But even with that understanding, "masked" never made any sense. As a result this prophecy was always somewhat left up in the air as to its real meaning.
But no longer.
Here is what one historian has to say about our time:
To put it bluntly, the people of America in 1918 did not have a radical leftist revolution in the making in their major cities nor was the nation a nation divided. This extra element makes the times of this pandemic much worse than the times of the Spanish Flu.
Our lives are indeed being set to order, organized, by medical experts and by policies enabled by the local, state, and federal governments, here in the US, and by governing systems in other countries such as the UK and Canada.
This makes the many of us who are widowed, divorced, or single and un-partnered not only masked, but truly "solitary." Families and couples are "isolated" from other people ... or they are supposed to be. Together we are all "masked" or "masked and solitary." For the purposes of the quatrain this is still properly stated as "masked and solitary" (it covers everyone).
For centuries, Nostradamus commentators, myself included, who attempted to interpret the above prophecy all believed that the quatrains containing references to "des seuls" or "the sole ones" or "the solitary ones" were religious orders of monks or nuns. But even with that understanding, "masked" never made any sense. As a result this prophecy was always somewhat left up in the air as to its real meaning.
But no longer.
Here is what one historian has to say about our time:
Was 2020 the worst year ever? Historians take a look back
There are no words. Wretched, vile, appalling don't cover it. Grim, ghastly, abominable are weak. When it comes to 2020, the year of COVID, of quarantine, of unemployment, of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, of forest fires and hurricanes and nonstop election madness, of closed schools and shuttered restaurants and 3,000 dead every day — the equivalent of a new 9/11 every 24 hours — the English language fails us.
The "century" began on a "sinister" note on September 11, 2001 and again following Arab Spring in 2011 with two civil wars in Syria and Libya, wars that mutated, created the reign of horror that was and still is ISIS, spread to other nearby countries, and are still being fought today (Libya is in truce that is likely only temporary). Despite this, Nostradamus anticipates the next twenty years or longer will bring much more evil to the world. The pandemic alone has killed 2 million people worldwide, but the coming global war will be worse than any war we have ever seen. It may not come in its totality until the 2030s or 2040s, but it will come. What we were able to avoid since 1945 during the last century and thus far the first twenty years of the current century is unlikely, with the ferocity of conflicts already being fought, some ongoing and some periodically, to be avoided between now and 2100.
Nostradamus saw more than one evil revolution besides the one in France. He warned that the forces of Antichrist would begin to proliferate around the year 1792 (French Revolution), again sometime after the beginning of the current century (after 2000), and as the seventh millenary draws to a close (Nostradamus provides two possible datings for this in his Epistle to Henry II: AD 2242 or AD 2827).
In one quatrain he stated that a "diabolical assembly" would come to power on March 23 ... with no year given:
In one quatrain he stated that a "diabolical assembly" would come to power on March 23 ... with no year given:
Nostradamus, Quatrain 1.42
Le dix Calendes d'Auril de faict Gotique, resuscité encor par gens malins:
Le feu estainct, assemblee diabolique, cherchant les os du d'Amant & Pselin.
The ten Calends of April of Gothic deed, resurrected again by evil people:
The fire is extinguished, assembly diabolical, seeking the bones of Amand & Psellus.
Le dix Calendes d'Auril de faict Gotique, resuscité encor par gens malins:
Le feu estainct, assemblee diabolique, cherchant les os du d'Amant & Pselin.
The ten Calends of April of Gothic deed, resurrected again by evil people:
The fire is extinguished, assembly diabolical, seeking the bones of Amand & Psellus.
Therefore "the 10th day before the calends of April" is March 23.
That could not be the French Revolution which began on May 5, 1789. The "French Revolutionary Calendar" itself started on July 14, 1789, but was later changed to January 2, 1792, then finally September 22, 1792 was agreed. It was then called "the calendrier républicain" as well as "the calendrier révolutionnaire." Either was appropriate. But as you can see, nowhere is "the tenth day before the calends of April" (March 23) to be found in any reckoning created by the French Revolution.
Therefore, Quatrain 1.42 is NOT about the French Revolution. It is about a revolution that has not yet happened ... or, if it is happening, it has not yet succeeded.
That could not be the French Revolution which began on May 5, 1789. The "French Revolutionary Calendar" itself started on July 14, 1789, but was later changed to January 2, 1792, then finally September 22, 1792 was agreed. It was then called "the calendrier républicain" as well as "the calendrier révolutionnaire." Either was appropriate. But as you can see, nowhere is "the tenth day before the calends of April" (March 23) to be found in any reckoning created by the French Revolution.
Therefore, Quatrain 1.42 is NOT about the French Revolution. It is about a revolution that has not yet happened ... or, if it is happening, it has not yet succeeded.
That all depends on the outcome of the radical left revolution occurring now in cities such as Portland, Oregon ... a revolution that seeks the overthrow of the Biden-Harris government and the abolishing of both Democratic and Republican Parties. The end of our system of government as we have known it since April 30, 1789 in other words (that's right! 1789, the year the French Revolution began, was also the first year of the first term of our first president, George Washington).
March 23, 2020, began the period of lockdown in the United States, the way led by state governors such as New York's Andrew Cuomo. On that day and thereafter, America was weakened, not only by fear but by policy. Most of its businesses were closed and its population in virtual quarantine, free only to go out to purchase essential goods and supplies. Mass unemployment followed and continues to this day. Phased reopening of some businesses began in May, then most by July. Many businesses opened but could not operate effectively under severe restrictions put into place. Some businesses were closed again and then allowed to reopen, sometimes a number of times. Many of these are now closed ... forever.
In a weakened national environment, those committed to anti-government revolution grew stronger. When George Floyd was murdered by a bad cop, an anti-racist movement called Black Lives Matter (BLM) grew powerful. During the anti-racial protests, the anti-government revolutionary forces infiltrated BLM and soon BLM was no longer BLM. BLM had been cannibalized by Antifa and other groups ... all dedicated to the overthrow of our government, our culture, and our history.
Quatrain 1.42 above is not yet fulfilled, but is still under consideration, because the success of the revolution remains in some degree of doubt. We sincerely hope success eludes these people who riot, destroy, deface, loot, burn, rape, and murder.
If the radical left revolution prevails, then it will become a very sinister century indeed, much more than it already has been.
The state of us "masked and solitary ones" will change, according to Nostradamus, but how will it change? That is the only part of the quatrain that remains to be fulfilled. Otherwise, the entire quatrain has been fulfilled.
As to the last line, "few will be found who want to be in their place" pretty much sums it all up. No one in their right mind would want to go through what we have since March 2020.
Few indeed would disagree.
March 23, 2020, began the period of lockdown in the United States, the way led by state governors such as New York's Andrew Cuomo. On that day and thereafter, America was weakened, not only by fear but by policy. Most of its businesses were closed and its population in virtual quarantine, free only to go out to purchase essential goods and supplies. Mass unemployment followed and continues to this day. Phased reopening of some businesses began in May, then most by July. Many businesses opened but could not operate effectively under severe restrictions put into place. Some businesses were closed again and then allowed to reopen, sometimes a number of times. Many of these are now closed ... forever.
In a weakened national environment, those committed to anti-government revolution grew stronger. When George Floyd was murdered by a bad cop, an anti-racist movement called Black Lives Matter (BLM) grew powerful. During the anti-racial protests, the anti-government revolutionary forces infiltrated BLM and soon BLM was no longer BLM. BLM had been cannibalized by Antifa and other groups ... all dedicated to the overthrow of our government, our culture, and our history.
Quatrain 1.42 above is not yet fulfilled, but is still under consideration, because the success of the revolution remains in some degree of doubt. We sincerely hope success eludes these people who riot, destroy, deface, loot, burn, rape, and murder.
If the radical left revolution prevails, then it will become a very sinister century indeed, much more than it already has been.
The state of us "masked and solitary ones" will change, according to Nostradamus, but how will it change? That is the only part of the quatrain that remains to be fulfilled. Otherwise, the entire quatrain has been fulfilled.
As to the last line, "few will be found who want to be in their place" pretty much sums it all up. No one in their right mind would want to go through what we have since March 2020.
Few indeed would disagree.
The Execution Of Saddam Hussein
and Aftermath
Nostradamus, Quatrain 1.94
At the Selin port the tyrant put to death, freedom not yet recovered:
The new War by vengeance and remorse, Lady honored by force of terror.
At the Selin port the tyrant put to death, freedom not yet recovered:
The new War by vengeance and remorse, Lady honored by force of terror.
The tyrant who is put to death on December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein, was indeed hanged at a "Selin port." Note that in a proper translation, "Selin" refers to the port and not the tyrant. Nor is Selin an anagram of either of the Ottoman sultans, Selim I or Selim II. Besides, neither Selim was put to death (executed). Selin can be a first or last name, popular in Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. It is also growing in popularity in the United States. Even so, it is incorrect to translate part of the first line as "the tyrant Selin."
Therefore, the tyrant is unnamed.
But when taken together with all the other elements of the quatrain, we know the tyrant was Saddam.
Selin is a Greek word and can also be spelled "Celin." Selin means "moon" (the Moon). It is closely related to the Greek name "Selena" (Goddess of the moon). Thus the "Selin port" is the "Moon port."
Rather than an execution at a future lunar colony, it has been accepted that the moon in this case is the crescent moon as symbol.
In ancient times it was a symbol for the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and also for the Roman goddess Diana (Greek goddess Artemis). In Roman Catholicism the moon crescent was instead applied to the Virgin Mary and also to The Woman of the Apocalypse found in Chapter 12 of Revelation.
Later, however, the crescent moon began appearing at the tops of many Ottoman era mosques and also as an emblem on military flags by Islamic armies during the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance period. The crescent moon was adopted as a symbol by the Ottoman empire and in the official emblem a star was added to the crescent. Europeans and others in the West began making associations between Islam and the crescent moon in the 20th century. This symbolism was eventually embraced by movements of Arab nationalism and Islamism, although rejected to this day by Muslim scholars.
Although Nostradamus does refer to "Diana" and "Artemis" in some of his prophecies, "Selin" is often used as a symbol for the crescent moon of the Ottomans or of Islam. Thus the port could either be Turkish or Mesopotamian.
In this case, the "Selin port" where the tyrant Saddam was hanged was the port of al-Kazimiyah (also Kadhimiya or Kazimain), a northern neighborhood of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city's center, on the west bank of the Tigris. It is a Tigris River PORT.
Therefore, the tyrant is unnamed.
But when taken together with all the other elements of the quatrain, we know the tyrant was Saddam.
Selin is a Greek word and can also be spelled "Celin." Selin means "moon" (the Moon). It is closely related to the Greek name "Selena" (Goddess of the moon). Thus the "Selin port" is the "Moon port."
Rather than an execution at a future lunar colony, it has been accepted that the moon in this case is the crescent moon as symbol.
In ancient times it was a symbol for the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and also for the Roman goddess Diana (Greek goddess Artemis). In Roman Catholicism the moon crescent was instead applied to the Virgin Mary and also to The Woman of the Apocalypse found in Chapter 12 of Revelation.
Later, however, the crescent moon began appearing at the tops of many Ottoman era mosques and also as an emblem on military flags by Islamic armies during the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance period. The crescent moon was adopted as a symbol by the Ottoman empire and in the official emblem a star was added to the crescent. Europeans and others in the West began making associations between Islam and the crescent moon in the 20th century. This symbolism was eventually embraced by movements of Arab nationalism and Islamism, although rejected to this day by Muslim scholars.
Although Nostradamus does refer to "Diana" and "Artemis" in some of his prophecies, "Selin" is often used as a symbol for the crescent moon of the Ottomans or of Islam. Thus the port could either be Turkish or Mesopotamian.
In this case, the "Selin port" where the tyrant Saddam was hanged was the port of al-Kazimiyah (also Kadhimiya or Kazimain), a northern neighborhood of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city's center, on the west bank of the Tigris. It is a Tigris River PORT.
"Freedom not yet recovered" in the aftermath of Saddam's execution is putting it mildly. Over the course of 2007, 18,610 Iraqi civilians were killed in sectarian civil war between Shias and Sunnis. Part of the "new war" was the escalation of the US war of occupation against Iraqi insurgents, particularly against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Along with other coalition fatalities, 899 US soldiers were killed in 2007. After four more years of conflict, finally came a temporary withdrawal of US troops under President Barack Obama in December 2011.
After the US withdrawal a renewed wave of sectarian and anti-government insurgency swept Iraq, causing thousands of casualties in 2012. Overlapping this conflict, another new war that would spill over into Iraq came in February 2011: the Syrian Civil War. The Arab Spring conflict would eventually include Turkey, Iraq, Iran and several rebel groups. Two years later, in April 2013, one of these groups, the former al-Qaeda in Iraq (Islamic State of Iraq), would merge with a few other rebel groups and form the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (IS, ISIS or ISIL) committing horrific acts of murder throughout Mesopotamia (Syria and Iraq).
US troops were reintroduced by President Obama in June 2014 to aid the Iraqis and the Kurds who were being systematically slaughtered by ISIS ... and have remained there under the Trump administration with one eye on Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the other on Iran and Iranian actions in Iraq, Syria, Saudia Arabia, and the Gulf.
But what of the last line? Who was or is the "lady?" Here is a subject that was not heavily reported at the time of Saddam's execution or for some time after.
The "lady honored through force of terror" was his daughter, Raghad Hussein, also known later as "Terror Godmother."
US troops were reintroduced by President Obama in June 2014 to aid the Iraqis and the Kurds who were being systematically slaughtered by ISIS ... and have remained there under the Trump administration with one eye on Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the other on Iran and Iranian actions in Iraq, Syria, Saudia Arabia, and the Gulf.
But what of the last line? Who was or is the "lady?" Here is a subject that was not heavily reported at the time of Saddam's execution or for some time after.
The "lady honored through force of terror" was his daughter, Raghad Hussein, also known later as "Terror Godmother."
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Thus, the final line, "lady honored by force of terror," was the enigmatic part of the quatrain all along for me ... and doubtlessly for many others. Why? Because it was "hidden news" ... it was news not prominently reported ... and also there was a lag in time before there was any real release of this information to the media.
It was there all the time but could not be seen. And this, sadly, has turned out to be a problem with other Nostradamus prophecies: the problem of the seemingly missing element. Another related quatrain continues the tale between two rivers, this time including both Syria and Iraq, ISIS and Raghad Hussein once again.
It was there all the time but could not be seen. And this, sadly, has turned out to be a problem with other Nostradamus prophecies: the problem of the seemingly missing element. Another related quatrain continues the tale between two rivers, this time including both Syria and Iraq, ISIS and Raghad Hussein once again.
