Nostradamus 1991
Steve Englehart

These  are  the Nostradamus quatrains that SEEM to have a bearing
on the rest of the century.  I emphasize "seem"  because  they're
all open  to  varying  degrees of interpretation.  In addition, I
have arranged them in an order that "seems" to  carry  a  logical
narrative, but  this  is  purely  MY interpretation.  Nostradamus
said the quatrains needed to be rearranged to be  comprehensible,
but I make no claims that this way is the right way.  I certainly
don't claim to understand everything here.  Despite the SEEMINGLY
close  connections  to some recent events, ponder with the proper
scepticism.

I have inserted comments in [brackets] where  an  explanation  or
more information is needed.  A comment with a question mark means
"definitely a  guess."   I've kept my other guesses to myself, so
as not to impede your personal sense of What It All Means.

Quatrains are listed as "Century.verse,"  for  checking  out  the
various   translators'   comments,   or   the   original   French
(Nostradamus verses come in groups of one hundred, or centuries).
The comments are often helpful, so if this  file  interests  you,
I'd suggest   taking   that  extra  step.    There  are  lots  of
translator/commentators around; browse a few  to  see  which  one
feels most accurate to you.



I.91_The  gods  will  make it appear to mankind that they are the
authors of a great war.  Before the sky was seen to  be  free  of
weapons and rockets: the greatest damage will be inflicted on the
left.

III.97_A  new law will occupy a new land around Syria, Judea, and
Palestine.  The great barbarian Empire will  crumble  before  the
century of Ph_bus [the sun] is finished.

IV.50_Libra  will  be seen to reign in the West, holding the rule
over the skies and earth.  No one will see the strength  of  Asia
destroyed until seven hold the hierarchy in succession.

I.16_A  scythe joined with a pond in Sagittarius [Jupiter] at its
highest ascendant.  Plague, famine, death  from  military  hands;
the century approaches its renewal.

I.50_From  the  three  water  signs  will  be born a man who will
celebrate Thursday [Jupiter] as his holiday.  His renown, praise,
rule, and power will grow on land and sea,  bringing  trouble  to
the East.

X.71_The  earth  and air will freeze so much water when they come
to venerate on Thursdays [Jupiter].  He who will come will  never
be as handsome as the four partners who come to honor him.

II.89_One  day the two great leaders will be friends; their great
power will be seen to grow.  The new land will be at  the  height
of its power, to the man of blood the number is reported.

VI.21_When  those  of the arctic pole are united together, in the
East will be great fear and dread.  A new man elected,  supported
by  the  great  one  who  trembles  [Greek name for Sirius], both
Rhodes [Greece] and Byzantium [Istanbul (Turkey)] will be stained
with Barbarian blood.

IV.95_The rule left to two, they will hold it a very short  time.
Three  years  and seven months having passed they will go to war.
The two vestals will rebel against them; the victor then born  on
American soil.

V.78_The two will not remain allied for long; within the thirteen
years they give in to barbarian power.  There will be such a loss
on  both  sides, that one will bless the bark [of Peter?] and its
leader.

X.66_The London premier through American power  will  burden  the
island  of  Scotland  with  a  cold thing. "Roi Reb" will have so
dreadful an Antichrist who will bring them all into the troubles.

X.75_Long awaited he will never return in Europe, he will  appear
in Asia; One of the league issued from great Hermes, he will grow
above all other powers in the Orient.

II.30_A man who revives the infernal Gods of Hannibal, the terror
of mankind.    Never  more horror nor the papers tell of worse in
the past, than will come to the Romans through Babel [Babylon: 50
miles south of Baghdad].

IX.73_The king enters Foix wearing a blue turban, he  will  reign
for  less  than  a revolution of Saturn [29.5 yrs]; the king with
the white turban, his heart banished to Byzantium, Sun, Mars, and
Mercury near Aquarius [February 1994].

III.60_Throughout Asia there will be great proscription, also  in
Mysia, Lycia  and  Pamphylia  [NW, SW, and S Turkey].  Blood will
flow because of the absolution of a young dark man,  filled  with
evil doing.

II.28_The   penultimate   of  the  prophet's  name  [NostraDAMus?
MuHAMmad?] will take Monday for his day of rest.  He will  wander
far in his frenzy delivering a great nation from subjection.

V.25_The  Arab Prince, Mars, the Sun, Venus and Leo [August 1987,
1989, 1998], the rule of the Church  will  succumb  to  the  sea.
Towards  Persia  very  nearly a million men will invade Egypt and
Byzantium, the true serpent.

VI.80_From Fez the kingdom will stretch out to those  of  Europe.
The city blazes, the sword will slash; the great man of Asia with
a  great  troop  by land and sea so that blues, "pers" [Persians?
the color blue-green?], the cross, he will drive out to death.

IV.43_Weapons will be heard fighting in the skies:  in  the  same
year the divine are enemies: they will want unjustly to query the
holy laws, through lightning and war many believers put to death.

I.55_In the land with a climate opposite to Babylon there will be
great shedding  of  blood.   Heaven will seem unjust both on land
and sea and in  the  air.    Sects,  famine,  kingdoms,  plagues,
confusion.

I.64_At  night  they will think they have seen the sun, when they
see the pig half-man [man in gas mask?]: Noise, screams,  battles
seen fought  in  the  skies.    And brute beasts will be heard to
speak.

VIII.59_Twice put up and twice cast  down,  the  East  will  also
weaken the  West.   Its adversary after several battles chased by
sea will fail at time of need.

IX.92_The king will want to enter the  new  city,  they  come  to
subdue  it  through its enemies; a captive falsely freed to speak
and act; the king to be outside, he will stay far from his enemy.

IX.79_The leader of the fleet  through  deceitful  trickery  will
make the  timid  ones  come  out  of  their  galleys.   Come out,
murdered, the leader to renounce the holy oil.  Then  through  an
ambush they give him his deserts.

VI.33_His hand finally through the bloody Alus, he will be unable
to protect  himself  by sea.  Between two rivers he will fear the
military hand, the black and angry one will make  him  repent  of
it. [Iraq was once Mesopotamia, which MEANS "between two rivers,"
the  Tigris  and  Euphrates_but  of  course  there are other such
places]

VIII.55_He will find himself shut in between  two  rivers,  casks
and  barrels  joined  to pass beyond: eight bridges broken, their
chief run through so many times, perfect children's throats  slit
by the knife.

VIII.77_The   third   Antichrist   will   soon   be  annihilated,
twenty-seven years his war will last.   The  heretics  are  dead,
captive,  exiled;  with  blood,  human bodies, water and red hail
covering the earth.

II.91_At sunrise a great fire  will  be  seen,  noise  and  light
extending toward the North.  Within the globe death and cries are
heard, death awaiting them through weapons, fire and famine.

II.41_The  great star will burn for seven days and the cloud will
make the sun appear double.  The large mastiff [England?  mastiff
also  called  "le  dogue  anglais"]  will howl all night when the
great pontiff changes his abode.

VI.97_The sky will burn at forty-five  degrees,  fire  approaches
the great New City.  Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up
when they want to have proof of the Normans.

I.87_Earth-shaking  [_or_Neptunian]  fire  from the center of the
earth will cause tremors around the New City.   Two  great  rocks
will  war  for  a  long  time,  then  Arethusa [a Greek nymph who
changed into a stream] will redden a new river.

X.49_Garden of the world near the New City, in the  road  of  the
hollow mountains.    It  will  be seized and plunged in the tank,
forced to drink water poisoned with sulphur.

II.62_Mabus will then soon die and there  will  come  a  dreadful
destruction of  people  and  animals.  Suddenly vengeance will be
revealed, a hundred hands, thirst and hunger, when the comet will
pass.

II.46_After great misery for mankind an even  greater  approaches
when the  great  cycle of the centuries is renewed.  It will rain
blood, milk, famine, war and disease: In the sky will be  seen  a
fire, dragging a trail of sparks.

X.74_The  year  of the great seventh number accomplished, it will
appear at the time of the games of slaughter, not  far  from  the
age of the great millennium, when the dead will come out of their
graves.

X.72_In  the  year 1999, and seven months, from the sky will come
the great King of Terror.  He will bring back to life  the  great
king of the Mongols.  Before and after War reigns happily.

V.88_Through  a  dreadful flood on the sand a marine monster will
be found from other seas.  A refuge will be made near the  place,
holding Savona the slave to Turin.

III.20_Near  the  (river) Conca by the Adriatic sea will appear a
horrible fish with human features and an aquatic purpose, it will
be caught without the hook.

II.5_When weapons and documents are enclosed in a fish  [_or_When
Mars and Mercury are in Pisces: Apr 1992, Mar-Apr 1994, Mar 1996,
Feb-Mar  1998, Feb 2000], out of it will come a man who will then
make war.  His fleet will have travelled far across  the  sea  to
appear near the Italian shore.

I.29_When the fish that travels over both land and sea is cast up
onto  the  shore  by  a great wave, its shape foreign, smooth and
frightful.  From the sea the enemies soon reach the walls.

VI.5_A very great famine (caused) by a pestilent wave will extend
its long rain the length of the  Arctic  pole.    Samarobrin  one
hundred  leagues  [270 miles] from the hemisphere; they will live
without law, exempt from politics.

VI.24_Mars and the scepter will be in conjunction,  a  calamitous
war   under   Cancer   [Mars  and  Jupiter  in  Cancer,  May-July
2002_or_imperial war by America].  A short time afterwards a  new
king  will  be  anointed  who will bring peace to the earth for a
long time.
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