Nostradamus For Dummies by Scarlett Ross

Author:Scarlett Ross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley

Based on those deductions, “In the third month the Sun rising” places the event in June, and wouldn’t you know it, Napoleon’s glory was all downhill after his greatest loss in the battle at Waterloo, which occurred on June 18, 1815.

Understanding the intended prophecy for a quatrain is easier if you begin with one piece and start to unravel from there. Select a person, place, or thing within the quatrain, and see whether the item can be placed in time or space along Nostradamus’s favorite topics of France, religion, the Medici family, the unknown 21st century, or whatever. After you start researching and studying the original piece, you may find references to something else in the quatrain. Don’t forget — some of the quatrains are for the future and are much harder to figure out.

After you figure out the date when Nostradamus predicted events would occur, figuring out the rest of the symbols in a quatrain and making sense of the prophecy is easier. Although Nostradamus left the exact year for this particular prophecy a little blank, he got the action on the nose. During the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was up against English troops led by the duke of Wellington (represented by the lion on the English coat of arms and sometimes called a leopard). The English weren’t hoping for too much in the way of victory, because the Prussian army (led by a man named Blücher who had avoided Napoleon’s forces) was defeated in a battle just before Waterloo and wasn’t going to be able to join the English for the last round with Napoleon’s army. But Blücher managed to come in at the last possible moment to help out, and Napoleon was defeated.

Past the basic details, however, this quatrain becomes bogged down with a myriad of possible misinterpretation. Two pieces of symbolism — the sun and the eagle — provide hours of entertainment for Nostradamus’s academic friends. But beyond their dusty desks, the symbols may seem a bit too much, so I boil them down to just the major combinations. I believe Nostradamus used the sun and the eagle for these layers of meaning:

The sun was an alchemy symbol for life (which was running out for Napoleon), and Napoleon and his Empire were combined into the eagle symbol, circling dangerously close to the sun like Osiris. (Osiris was an Egyptian god who made wings of feathers and wax and then flew too close to the sun. When the wax melted, he plunged to his death.)

The sun was a symbol for the Empire of France, which Napoleon (the eagle) circled. He returned from exile and was trying to come full circle to regain his empire. Nostradamus used the circling imagery to suggest that the eagle never manages to reach the goal. Napoleon’s attempts to reach his former glory followed the same unsuccessful pattern.

The sun was Napoleon’s career, rising in the first line of the quatrain and circled as if being stalked by the eagle in the fourth line (possibly the white eagle Prussia used on state seals during the time Napoleon became Emperor).

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