Nostradamus on 2012

I was planning on writing my next post on Buddhism, however I have something else very heavy on my mind that I felt was more urgent.

I’m sure by now you have heard the doomsday predictions about 12-21-2012. There are many theories about what the tragic event will be. There are many interpretations as to what Nostradamus meant in his quatrains. And then there is the Mayan calendar which ends on 12-21-2012.

Well lets start with Nostradamus.
His writings are talked about all over the world. They are always the subject of great controversy. Why? Because of the cryptic method he used to record his visions they are not straight forward and so are open to interpretation, kind of like the Bible. And look how that one worked out.. Millions of people all reading the same book, Thousands of churches, hundreds Of religions, all with different Points of view, all thinking their the only ones who are right. And that’s just the religions based on one book. You also have the Koran, the Torah etc…

Anyway my point is when something is written in a cryptic manner or uses generalities it Is going to be interpreted by different people differently.
Also you need to consider view. By this I mean what he saw, and how he saw it, and yes I do believe through alchemic methods he truly had visions. When one has a vision it is of a certain place or event. They don’t see the entire planet at once unless the perspective of the vision is from outer space and then they wouldn’t be able to see individual people or events,
They could only see something huge like the planet exploding. NONE of Nostradamus visions were of that nature. His warnings are all of specific tragedies, specific places and events. Some were of people and some were of events. When he speaks of events he speaks of earthquakes, tsunamis, famine, disease war and the like. Consider this, Visions of the internal mind have a myopic view just like those of the external eyes. If you had a vision
of a wave slamming down on many people you might think the world was destroyed by the great wave. But what you really saw was the tsunami event of August 10, 2009 in the Andaman Islands. It was a tragedy no doubt, and my thoughts are with the survivors who lost everything including loved ones, but it was not an extinction level event. Also consider this, Nostradamus wrote his quatrains to warn us to take action to fix the problems he saw coming,
He tells us to head his warnings and take action before it’s too late. First of all why would he be granted visions of something that was inevitable. That would be a cruel thing to do to anyone. And if Nostradamus himself felt that a catastrophe was coming that we had no control over why would he have bothered to warn us. His warnings were of events that could be prevented or corrected if we listened to him.

The global issues that plague us right now are of our own making. We have created it through our misuse of the planet and it’s resources. Nostradamus warns us that when these things come to pass we must act quickly to reverse the damage if we want to halt the trend of increasing tragedies.

Aside from those warnings which are related to the global problems we have caused he made no predictions that can reasonably be translated as doomsday warnings. But don’t take my word for it. I believe we all have a brain for a reason. We all need to stop letting others do our thinking for us. So read his quatrains for yourself. You will find a link to them at the bottom of this post. But keep these things in mind.

1. The rhymed quatrains of Nostradamus were written mainly in French with a bit of Italian, Greek, and Latin thrown in. So the English translation may not be perfectly accurate.

2. Even the person who has a vision has to interpret what they see, and they interpret it according to their own experiences. Since the world today is very different from what is was then, there had to have been much of what he saw that he had trouble assimilating. If you lived in a pre-modern age, and you had a vision of the nuclear bomb that detonated in Hiroshima you would without a doubt think the world was destroyed.

3. And finally when you go to the link below you will find all 942 quatrains divided into 10 centuries, that’s how the chapters are described by Nostradamus. You will also find the site hosts interpretations of the quatrains.
Remember all interpretations are subject to bias and opinion. If you want to read the interpretations fine but I suggest you read the quatrains first and draw your own conclusions.

My next post will be on The Collective Human Consciousness and how it will effect the changes coming in 2012. There are changes coming as a result of cosmic events and planetary placements, as predicted by the Mayans, but they are not global catastrophes. They are evolutionary advances of our entire race.

And as for the Mayan calendar declaring the end of the world The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so that when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across the odometer – the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again. Makes sense, think about how many different calendars cultures have used throughout human history. The world has never ended just because the calendar ends. It simply starts over. So why did the Mayans, as well as other cultures end their calendars at this particular time. Because these calendars are based on the movement and placement of celestial bodies, their positions in relation to us, and how their locations affect our planet. They recognized that this date would mark the beginning of the next cosmic revolution of our sun around our galaxy, from our vantage point that is.
This solar placement coincides with the zodiac calendar and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius.

We are now in the age of Pisces and have been for aprox. 2000 years. The Age of Aquarius, as heralded by many people in the 60’s, is an age of spiritual enlightenment. Something we should be looking forward to not fearing.

Think back to the 60’s, if your old enough, if not research it online. Hippies, as they were called, cried out for peace, love, and respect for the planet and its resources. They were laughed at, criticized, and mostly ignored. Now over 40 years later, we have come to realize they were right about our destruction of the planet and how we would pay for it They were right about putting an end to war, less people are able to tolerate the killing of each other today over a difference of opinion, and as these convictions grow in civilization war will eventually end. It’s also interesting to note that several enlightened writers of books about the coming age have stated in their books that aprox 40 years prior to this new age there will be an enlightened movement declaring the new age. And the authors I am speaking of wrote these predictions hundreds of years before the hippy movement began. But the timing was right on.

And keep in mind when you read Nostradamus’s prophesies, some of his warnings are about tragedies of nature growing in frequency, he tells us to do something about it before its too late. The only way we can fix nature is if we broke it in the first place. Why warn us about something that’s out of our control. In addition many of his Quatrains are warnings about wars. Again he warns us in hope of preventing the event. He warns people to leave cities where great suffering will occur in hopes of saving as many as he can. Not one of his prophesies is of an event that we have no control over. There is no logic in making such a declaration. It would only cause mass hysteria. And this is what concerns me now.

In my next post on The Collective Human Consciousness, I will tell you how our individual thoughts and actions effect the Collective Human Consciousness . The more of us who are driven to panic over 2012, the more others will panic. The more of us who stay calm, the more others will stay calm.

So please click on the link below and read the Quatrains for yourself. But remember what I said about reading their interpretations. Read the Quatrains for yourself first. That way you can form your own opinion without being compromised by the view of others. And come back next week to read my post on The Collective Human Consciousness and how we can use it to prevent the mass hysteria building now from reaching dangerous levels. I’ll also talk about self fulfilling prophesies and how 12-21-2012 could become just that is we don’t reign in the doomsayers.

My best to you all
Kat

Quatrains of Nostradamus

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