Nostradamus: Psychic or Prophet?

We are in the world where we have all the information about anything and everything at our fingertips. Many eminent scientists have the prophetic ability to predict the future of the world and to forsee the amazing ideas that will reshape our future. 

In today's time technological advancement has emerged as a boon and many people have come out of the narrow mindedness and blind belief in superstitions. However, there are number of people who still believe in psychics and soothsayers and even today people believe in Nostradamus. 

Michael De Notre Dame an astrologer, physician and a soothsayer is extremely famous even in today's world for his prophecies and prediction. Did he really write prophecies that are 100%, accurate or did he just wobbly predict the future?

It's been 500 years since he died and still is the king of prediction. Are the prediction like a blank piece of paper that its super indefinite and imprecise that they can mean anything and everything that you want them to mean?

Nostradamus was born in France in 1503, his family converted into Catholicism before he was born. He worked as an apothecary for several years before entering the University of Montpellier but he was almost expelled after his work as an apothecary was discovered. Even though, he used to practice medicine how his first wife and children died of plague is still a mystery. 

There were many people in the society who criticized him asking cynically as to why he couldn't save his wife and two children. He published the book titled “Les Prophéties”. He was credited for predicting numerous significant events from the French Revolution to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre which happened on September 11, 2001.

It's 2020, and will you believe that a lot of people still believe in them and interestingly, every year around New Year's eve new theories and prophecies connected with Notre dame's and his prediction, released by various prophetic experts. 

People flock with a lot of expectation and curiosity to read them. Now, let's dive deep into some of his interesting predictions. Nostradamus predicted the French Revolution. The French Revolution marked a period of violence and bloodshed in the history of France.

The French Revolution
 

King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were tyrants. It was Marie Antoinette, who said that "let them eat cake if they don't have bread". 

This shows the cruel and despotic nature of the rulers of France. After reading the history of Marie Antoinette, I learnt that they were almost ready to flee the country but unfortunately, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and children were recognized by a civilian. They were caught and imprisoned soon after that as stated in the quatrain. 

Marie Antoinette was guillotined soon after Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette had a very bad time; for hair was cut and seen even prayed for her poor children in her last hours.

The Fall of Bastille

The quatrain refers to the " Fall of Bastille" (a prison) which happened on 14th July 1789. The insurgents captured the fortress and decapitated the Governor. 

The Death of Henry-II

The king had jousting match With Montgomery which ultimately caused an injury. Montgomery's joust passed through the slits of Henry's headgear referred to as the golden cage and pierced him through the eye. Henry died 11 days after suffering from multiple diseases. 

The Great Fire of London

This prediction is super accurate because this fire blazed the street of London on September 2, 1666.This fire consumed the whole city. The deadly plague died out during the great fire. 

The World Trade Center Attack

On September 11, 2001, two hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York. 45 degree might reference to New York City’s 45th latitude. 

Louis Pasteur's Discoveries

This famous Nostradamus quatrain describes pasture’s revolutionary discovery of the long hidden microbe. Pasture became the object of mockery and many members of the European medical committee were jealous of him.

JFK's Assassination

John F Kennedy received many death threats. Kennedy was assassinated at noon on 22nd November 1963 thus the prediction is accurate. 

The conspiracy theorist also claim the CIA was involved in the assassination of John F Kennedy because he wanted to pull troops out of Vietnam and support the Civil Rights Movement- which of course is no good to the scheming money man in the Senate, world banks and future presidents -yes these are upstanding members of society we are supposed to believe because they have no reason to lie. 

So who is "the guilty one remain in the mist" that Nostradamus mentions?

Though all these are some of the important things he predicted, many of his predictions were inaccurate.

Zombies

Nostradamus predicted the arrival of Zombies. According to his seminal work "the centuries" The dead will ride from the grave for the games of slaughter around The Millennium.

Floods and Droughts

"14 years the rainbow will not be seen. For 14 years Rainbow will not be seen every day. The dry earth will grow more parched and there will be great floods when it’s seen"

Catastrophic Earthquakes

From the centre of the earth the great earthquake shall be in the month of May, Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus, Venus, also cancer, Mars in zero."

This was again another false prediction. An earthquake of high magnitude was predicted but no such powerful earthquake capable of destroying the whole world happened.

The Wheels of time are moving incessantly. Is time only digging out what is buried or hidden in the future as Nostradamus has made us to ponder through some of his predictions? 

According to a psychic expert, Nostradamus had predicted a war in the Middle East. Considering the situation in the Middle East this might be possible but it might not be a full fledged war.

A British psychic also revealed that Nostradamus predicted a particularly violent year ahead of the US President Donald Trump. The psychic then added... 

Trump will have a treaty with President Vladimir Putin which will mirror President Trump pact with North Korea. 

However, Nostradamus did not predict the results of Brexit Vote. This is an extremely important event or a milestone for Britain and the rest of Europe. Nostradamus was indeed a legend. 

Some critics of Nostradamus state that people are trying to ruin the charm of his literary work by desperately digging deep into his quatrains. Soothsayer’s false prophets and psychics are mostly trying to do this. 

Nostradamus timeless predictions made him even popular to those seeking answers to life's more difficult questions.