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Nostradamus' astronomy -The Order of the Chain.
© Allan Webber 2016

The fatal everlasting order through the chain
Will come to turn through consistent order:
The chain of Marseilles will be broken:
The city taken, the enemy at the same time
.
C3 Q79
  Michel de Nostredame

Nostradamus' writings show clear patterns of reasoning that provide guides to how he constructed connections whilst writing in a manner to deceive those for whom it wasn't intended. It is my intent in this section to piece together the information that throws light on the dates for the distant periods which were his major concern with the 500 years mentioned in C3 Q94 being the starting point.  

C3 Q94
For five hundred years more one will keep count of the one
Who was the ornament of his time
Then suddenly great light will he give,
He who for this century will render them very satisfied.

Five hundred years from the time of his writing places his interest in the middle of our century and beyond. There are several other verses that confirm this date with C1 Q54 and C1 Q56 contributing the most clear references. In so doing they illustrate the nature of his astronomic method.

Firstly the latter two verses are the only ones to carry the root 'mutat' in their text and that in itself provides a clue that they refer to the period of greatest change in human fortunes. Together these two verses describes astronomic events related to the year 2000 and 2100.

In the year 2105 the current Pole Star, Ursa Minor will pass its zenith while in the years 2000 and 2100 there will be quite notable close alignments of the major planets.

The following verse has an anagram in the third line that only occurs in five other verses in the Prophecies and that word is definitive since in both French and English it forms the word Polaris (is par lo), the common name for the northern Pole Star.

And April of the year 2000 is the rare time when starting at the head of Aries the planets Venus followed by Mercury are found and the are followed by the Sun, Jupiter and then Saturn.

Major plane conjunction in Aries 2000CEC1 Q51 : 2100CE date set by Polaris zenith and 2000 by Jup & Sat in Aries.

The head of Aries, Jupiter and Saturn
Eternal God, what changes?
Then the bad times will return again after a long time
what turmoil in France and Italy.

Chef d'Aries, Jupiter et Saturne  
Dieu eternel quelles mutations?
Puis par long Siecle Son maling temps retourne
Gaule et Italie quelles eSmotions.

 April 2000CE major planetary conjunction in Aries (Redshift 2 image).

The second of the two verses provides a compelling description of the astronomic event involved, since setting the mobile sign to Polaris gives us the star moving to its destiny as the pole star.  The most northern position Polaris can take occurs in the year 2105CE and no other until the 25,000 year pole star precession cycle returns it to that spot.

This movement entitles the Pole Star to be referred to as the mobile sign.

C1 Q54:
Two revolutions made from the evil scythe
making a permutation of reign and centuries.
The mobile sign thus moves into its place:
At two [times] of equal worth and inclination.

Deux reuolts faicts du maling falcigere  
De regne et Siecles faict permutation
Le mobil Signe a Son endroict Si ingere
Aux deux egaux et d'inclination
.

The deductions from the two verses given above are reinforced by the text of a close by verse in which astronomy is once again evident and the great change of the Polar star can be read in its first and last lines.

C1 Q56
Sooner and later you will see great changes made,
dreadful horrors and vengeances.

For as the moon is thus led by its angel
the heavens draw near to the balance.
Vous verrez toſt et tard faire grand change
Horreurs extremes et vindications
Que ſi la lune conduicte par ſon ange
Le ciel s'approche des inclinations.

It is by such usage that Nostradamus' references to 'the order of the chain' is understood to be more than descriptive language but the connection he employed in performing his frequent astronomic calculations. However his order of the chain is also more than the precession of the Polarstar since it also incorporates the procession of the stars.

In the preface to his 1555 edition Nostradamus included a passage that provides important keys to this part of his astronomic date-coding method. Firstly it identifies an event-period for which it has relevance.

..and also I find that letters shall undergo such a huge and unparalleled loss and I find that the world before the universal conflagration will experience many deluges with inundations so high that there will be no soil that is not covered by water; and this will be for such a long time that all would be lost except for the records of enographies and topographies. Also before and after such inundations, in most countries, the rains will be in demand, and from the heavens will fall a great abundance of fire and white-hot stones, so nothing shall remain that is not consumed. And all this is to occur, in brief, before the last conflagration...1555 Cesar Preface (PCE8)

Then the continuance of that section of the Preface provides one of the prime mechanisms he used to date his prophecies. His method is a pragmatic displacement mechanism exploiting planetary perfect cycles. These are periods when the mathematics inherent in their rotations around the sun causes them to reach the same spot.

There is the long known Metonic cycle of 19 years (Sun and Moon but there are also ones covering 79 years (Sun and Mars), 854 years (major planets), 1355 years (Sun and Saturn) and 1459 years (Sun and Jupiter). It is by such practical understandings that a 16th century observer can give a reasonable forecast for where the stars will be and when conjunctions and eclipses will occur since he only has to look back at the historical astronomic records and calculate from there.

The vital clues that Nostradamus is talking of this methodology lies in his references to perfection of cycles:

For repeatedly the planet Mars perfects its cycle and at the end of its last period it shall be taken up again - but there are ones assembling in Aquarius for several years, and others in Cancer for much longer and continuously. And now that we are led by the moon, since the total strength of God Eternal comes from those which perfect the total circuit, the Sun comes and then Saturn. Because according to the Celestial signs the reign of Saturn is to return...1555 Cesar Preface (PCE8)

The precision of this process can be seen by examining the mathematics behind the 854 cycles which is as shown below. The number of cycles each makes in a period of 854 years is shown in brackets with the more precise figure for each being shown alongside:


Sun (854): 854.0 cycles
Mars (400): 399.96 cycles
Jupiter (72): 71.996 cycles 
Saturn (29): 28.992 cycles
Metonic (Sun & Moon: 45 ): 44.947

Now precession of the poles takes about 25,765 years and this means the position of the background stars has moved almost exactly 12 degrees in 854 years. This is about 40% of one zodiac sign so these planets, the time of year and the nearby stars are little changed over that 854 year period. And there are refinements possible to increase accuracy.

For instance in order that a perfect-cycle system be used it is important to be able to counteract the distortions created by regression. This is readily achieved by finding the perfect cycles of each planet in respect to the motion of the sun since this removes the impact of regression (which is virtual movement brought about by being in a different part of the orbit around the sun).

And there are very precise perfect cycles for the three major planets plus the Moon at which time the Sun and its satellite return to almost the same alignment. This is shown below :

Planet alignment

No of cycles of planet Calculation of years No of cycles of Sun
Moon & Sun (Metonic) 235 235 x 0.08085=18.9998 19
Mars & Sun 37 37 x 2.1352= 79.0024    79
Jupiter & Sun 123 123 x 11.86179= 1459.0002 1459
Saturn & Sun 46 46 x 29.45660 =  1355.0036    1355
It is worth observing that Jupiter and the Sun are only 0.0002 years apart after 123 revolutions so it takes about 22,000 years for its perfect cycle to get out of alignment with the Sun by one degree. This is the same order of time as the precession of the Poles so it is very apt to refer to Jupiter as the Eternal God, a term used in Nostradamus' passage.

But Nostradamus didn't restrict his usage to his calendar calculations, he also used it in his writings as a coding device. The verse below illustrates this usage since Nostradamus uses one of these cycles to generate fixed astronomic dates within the prophecies. The first line indicates that his modern era predictions begin in the early 1930s. The clue to this usage lies in the reference to the years of the Moon's reign which is the perfect cycle of nineteen years and twenty of these added to 1555, when this verse was published, gives a date of 1935. 
C1 Q48
When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed
another will take up his reign for seven thousand years
When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle
then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished
.


Vingt ans du regne de la lune paSSez
Sept mil ans autre tiendra Sa monarchie
Quand le Soleil prendra Ses jours laSSez
Lors accomplit et mine ma prophetie.
This verse has a further  importance since it clearly shows that Nostradamus doesn't consider the end of the world is within his visionary range. It can be implied from his use of 'When the exhausted sun will take up his cycle' that the 7,000 year reign mentioned in the second line takes us way beyond the 3797 date he gives for the range of his Prophecies.

There is much more material contained in each of these verses but it lies in the hidden content of the lettering and whilst that is not the domain of this current chapter its potential is worth noting. To this end the line holding the name Polaris as an anagram in C1 Q51 lies adjacent to others that yield Polaris sign close alignment(is par lo - ng Si - e - cle So -n maling te); wording that confirms the narrative of conjunctions at the time of the pole star's zenith.

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