2021. It’s finally here. Although off to an unusual start, Editor Sara wanted to ask the Bloggers what they predict for the rest of the year (for better or for worse). Blogger Elizabeth decided to look toward the Great Nostradamus for 2021 predictions.
By Elizabeth Shay
Nostradamus was a French physician and astrologer who is best known for his prophecies. These prophecies are expressed in verses called quatrains, and are outlined in his book, Les Prophéties, published in 1555. Nostradamus has written 6,338 prophecies, over 70% of which have supposedly been fulfilled (yearly-horoscope.org); some of his accurate predictions seem to include the French Revolution, Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, and even the 9/11 attacks–yikes! His prophecies cover the years until 3797, when he believes that the world is slated to end (history.com).
Here are three of Nostradamus’s dreadful and saddeningly dark predictions for 2021, which hopefully do not come true:
- A Famine of Biblical Proportions (yearly-horoscope.org)
According to Nostradamus, we can expect a massive famine in 2021, which is one of the signs of the end of the world in addition to earthquakes and plagues. The prophecy reads:
“After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared,
The Great Mover renews the ages:
Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,
Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running”
Nostradamus
To be fair, a great catastrophe is prophesied by Nostradamus to occur pretty much every single year, so it doesn’t hold much weight.
- A Devastating Earthquake Will Destroy California (yearly-horoscope.org)
In yet another tragedy that Nostradamus has visualized for the upcoming year, a great earthquake is set to hit “the Lands of the West,” which people assume to mean California. The actual prediction reads as follows:
“The sloping park, great calamity,
Through the Lands of the West and Lombardy [Italy]
The fire in the ship, plague, and captivity;
Mercury in Sagittarius, Saturn fading”
Nostradamus
According to astrologers, the dates when the planets mentioned will be in the described position in the sky is November 25, 2021.
Once again, this shouldn’t cause alarm because Nostradamus has made this prediction in 1988. And in 2015. And in 2020.
- A War Between Two Allied Countries (wisehoroscope.org)
Finally, Nostradamus describes a war between two allied countries in the near future, which will lead to the third world war. The quatrain states:
“In the city of God there will be a great thunder
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos while the fortress endures
The great leader will succumb
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning”
Nostradamus
This is definitely not encouraging to see, but based on this prophet’s track record, I don’t think that there is grounds for panic.
2020 has been a rough year to say the least, and these predictions definitely do not inspire much confidence for the new year. Fortunately, there is little proof for the validity of these predictions. Any seemingly accurate prophecies are likely a result of coincidences.
What are some of your predictions for 2021? Hopefully they are more positive than these!
Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/nostradamus
2021 Predictions Editor: Sara Habibipour
I predict we will at last understand how Nostradamus’s esoteric “vagaries”….
open to liberal application to almost EVERY human condition….
make him the most “phenomenally” accurate soothsayer
in the history of doomsday prediction.