In retrospect, it all seems bleakly inevitable: that enigmatologists would move on from the lardy Bacon-stuffed margins of Shakespeariana to find new hunting grounds. Personally, I thought Nostradamus scrabbled pretty hard to find rhymes for his verses, but a new book claims these were all just a cover story, and that it was no more than an enciphered journal.
“Rise to Consciousness” (2008) by Michal Deschausses claims to decipher the truth hidden in Nostradamus’ work, allegedly revealing a story about “one strong woman” in the far future who seems to resemble… Michal Deschausses?
I-1
Some publishers will assist with offering the knowledge in this Century. In pure reason they will rush her through it. The bout the year of her death secures vast knowledge through the age and the verses will release facts which people will hardly believe.
Could it really be that Nostradamus’ quatrains (strictly speaking, “vers commun”) enciphered a “multi-lingual” secret message? Or is it simply the case that you can, just as Leo Levitov famously did for the Voynich Manuscript, “decipher” just about any given text-like thing into an entirely parallel “polyglot oral tongue”, a stream of Romance language fragments from which you can read basically any message you like?
For reference, Nostradamus’ Century 1 Quatrain 1 is probably an “evocation of the Delphic Oracle, after Iamblichus’s De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum“: and goes like this:-
Estant assis de nuict secret estude,
Seul reposé sus la selle d’aerain:
Flambe exigue sortant de solitude,
Faict prosperer qui n’est à croire vain.
The two are connected, errrm, how? Anyhoo, because Michal Deschausses has been good enough to include her deciphering methodology as an appendix, I’ll probably end up buying a copy and having a look. But having seen Levitov’s book, I won’t be holding my breath.
Now… we’ve had hundreds of years of people claiming that Nostradamus’ verses predict every d&mn thing in the news, from the end of the world, to war(s) in Iraq, and even (most recently) to Barack Obama and his running mate:-
Born of obscure and dark family,
Of white and black of the two intermixed.
The dark one biding his time,
Before the Empire changes.
But… hold on a minute: “Born of obscure and dark family” is a line from Century V Quatrain 84, “Of white and black of the two intermixed” is a line from Century VI Quatrain 10, “The dark one biding his time” appears just to have been made up, while “Before the Empire changes” is a line from Century I Quatrain 43.
So, Nostradamus bloggers have supposedly got themselves excited about three lines moved waaaaay out of context with a filler line added in to form a supposed verse about Obama. Oh, really?
OK… let me try for myself, restricting the search to a high-speed sleective scan through Century I:-
Lost, found, hidden for so long an age,
In the future by headless idiots
That which shall live without having any sense
submerged, killed, dead through brainless idiocy
Profoundly predictive, don’t you think? 😮
Did Nostradamus really write a journal in code?
The term “journal” is coincidentally first used in an anachronistic manner in Nostradamus’ most famous work, so maybe he did. 🙂
There are a couple of interesting things to look at.
The first 353 quatrain (therefore 1412 lines) strong edition was supposedly finished on the 1st of March (3.1 or in “European” 1.3) 1555, released 64 days later (on the 4th of May, 1555) but the prophecies supposedly start on the 14th of March, 1557. Which is coincidentally the number of days between said dates (1.3.1555-14.3.1557) ………and the number of quatrains in days, (including the second part, 353 + 289) 642.
So maybe yeah, it was a journal.:)
The end date of the prophecies, or expiration date, is also provided: the year 3797. Which is coincidentally the highest number until 10,000, which is made of prime numbers (3,7,9,37,79,97).
From the year 1555, till the year 3797, 2242 years pass, which is coincidentally the number of “bissextile” years during the span of……10,000 years.
Coincidentally, Nostradamus dedicates the Propheties to his son Caesar, which is not far away from a “Caesura”, a musical stop sign, which he, coincidentally again, uses exactly once during the whole “Propheties”.
There’s also the famous sentence in the “Preface” to Caesar, in which Nostradamus says in French “Car la parole hereditaire estant……..”, meaning, the key to his prophecies lays in…..and here the plot thickens.
It’d have been correct to use “Que la parole…..” in french, instead, he uses CAR, which is the key to the prophecies. And it appears only once as an anagram in the “Propheties”, even though in a specific verse, verse 7/1 (meaning, the 643rd verse), one verse after the coincidentally strange LATIN verse, 6/100, warning all alchemists, soothsayers and other idiots to stay away from this part of the book. LOL
Said key…….and anagram, is ARC:
L’ARC du thresor par Achilles deceu,
Aux procrées sceu la quadrangulaire:
Au faict Royal le comment sera sceu,
Cors veu pendu au veu du populaire.
As you can probably see by now, the verse coincidentally
is arranged in such a way, that “ARCs” and triangles can
be built with the letters A,R,C. 🙂
L'(ARC), A(chilles), R(oyal), C(ors)
A(ux), R(oyal), C(ors)
A(u), R(oyal), C(ors)
all of these built triangles, which, when connected, coincidentally, reveal a symbol looking like……..a key.
Old Nostradamus 🙂 So many coincidences, pretty strange. 😉
Not to mention the “Pre-Face(s)”, the faces in the illuminated first letters of the first edition Preface and the 4 “chapters” up until the 353rd, verse 4/53.
As coincidence wants it, the letters spell out TEVAC, or CAVET backwords.
(CAVE) is of course, coincidentally found in verse 4/1.
But enough of these coincidences (not to mention that in said illuminated pictures, Nostradamus is shown with different bear-lengths, which make it easier to sort the “centuries”).
Did the guy, who NEVER constructed ONE CORRECT HOROSCOPE (coincidence and I don’t mean, the horoscopes didn’t fit what happened, no, there were WRONGLY CONSTRUCTED) ever make a real prediction?
Yes, coincidentally, only once. And said prediction is not supernatural at all, even though it is prophetic.
The only time a clear year is mentioned in the propheties, the verses, is in a verse, where Nostradamus talks about a “Dark Lord in the skies of August, 1999”. A prediction of war? The Anti-Christ arriving?
No, the guy who couldn’t make one horoscope, because he was too stupid to correctly set up the planets, coincidentally describes the full solar eclipse of August, 1999, which was then seen in Northern Europe. 🙂
Alllll these coincidences. 😉
There’s also an interesting fact about the year of the publication of the propheties. While it happened a couple of times before, 1555 was the last time a single year has seen TRES popes. 🙂 The next time it happened was 1978, when two popes had to die, so that the first non-Italian pope in cenuries could come to the throne. A “king” from Poland.
Coincidentally, the Henry III, the second letter in the propheties was actually dedicated to (because by the time the second edition WITH the letter to “Henry Second” was released, the same one was already dead for years), was the first king of Poland AND France. 🙂
Coincidences, shmoincidences.
Even if you don’t believe in Nostradamus’ predictive powers (and you shouldn’t, when said believe includes some supernatural explanations of events), you should by now be curious enough to look into a possibility of a code contained within the “Propheties”, a hidden message……….just not prophecies.
Greets,
L’Arc
I found something interesting in the reordering of the centuries and reading the quatrains.
1. Introduction
Nostradamus’s Les Prophéties (1555–1568) consists of 942 poetic stanzas divided into ten “Centuries” (groups of 100 quatrains), plus two extra centuries (7–12 in some editions) and a sixth century left incomplete.
For centuries, readers have treated each quatrain as independent or loosely grouped by century number.
This document proposes that Nostradamus wrote a continuous linear text and later split it into the century–quatrain grid, using intentionally omitted stanzas as section breaks.
By restoring the original order and reading between these breaks, coherent narrative blocks emerge.
2. What Was Discovered
The first clue is the Latin Incantation. Placed at the end of Century 6 after Quatrain 100, and then repeated exactly in Century 7 as Quatrain 0. This clue suggests Century 7 is the proper start, with Century 6 being the end.
Reordering the centuries as 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (instead of 1–12) and then sorting by quatrain number reveals that missing quatrains (gaps in the sequence) act like spacers.
The text between spacers forms multi‑stanza blocks that show thematic, chronological, and narrative coherence.
This pattern holds across both quatrains (4‑line, ABAB rhyme) and sixains (6‑line, AABCCB rhyme, in Century 11).
Astronomical references within blocks often cluster around specific astrological configurations, allowing possible dating.
3. Step‑by‑Step Method to Replicate
3.1. Prepare the Text
Obtain a complete French edition of the Prophéties with all known quatrains and sixains, including the Latin verses.
Number each stanza clearly: C[Century]Q[Quatrain] (e.g., C1Q1, C11S1 for sixains).
Mark missing stanzas (e.g., C12 lacks many quatrains; C7, C8, C11 also have gaps).
3.2. Reorder the Centuries
Arrange the stanzas in this century order:
text
Century 7 → Century 8 → Century 9 → Century 10 → Century 11 → Century 12 →
Century 1 → Century 2 → Century 3 → Century 4 → Century 5 → Century 6
This order starts with the Latin epistle (C7Q0) and ends with the matching Latin at C6Q100, forming a thematic frame.
3.3. Sort by Quatrain Number
Within the reordered list, group all Q1 stanzas together, then all Q2, etc., preserving each stanza’s internal line order and rhyme scheme.
Your list will now look like:
text
C7Q1, C8Q1, C9Q1, C10Q1, C11S1, C12Q1?, C1Q1, C2Q1, C3Q1, C4Q1, C5Q1, C6Q1,
C7Q2, C8Q2, C9Q2, …
(If a quatrain number is missing in a century, leave a blank entry.)
3.4. Identify Spacers
A spacer occurs wherever a whole stanza is missing in the sequence.
Example: If C12Q1 is missing, the blank entry after C11S1 is a spacer.
3.5. Extract Blocks
A block is the continuous text from one spacer to the next spacer, excluding the blank spacer lines.
Example:
Block 1 = C7Q1, C8Q1, C9Q1, C10Q1, C11S1
Spacer = missing C12Q1
Block 2 = C1Q1, C2Q1, C3Q1, C4Q1, C5Q1, C6Q1, C7Q2, C8Q2, … up to next missing quatrain.
3.6. Read Each Block Continuously
Read the stanzas within a block in sequence, ignoring original century and quatrain numbers.
Observe recurring proper names, places, themes, and narrative progression.
3.7. Test for Coherence
For each block, ask:
Is there a consistent theme (e.g., war, famine, royal succession)?
Do events progress logically (conflict → battle → outcome)?
Do astrological references within the block point to a specific timeframe?
Does the block end naturally before the spacer?
Compare with randomized blocks of the same length to see if coherence is above chance.
4. Example: Block Analysis
Block starting with C9Q1 (from reorder numbering):
Contains: C9Q1, C10Q1, C11S1, C12Q1, C1Q1, … up to C11S5.
Narrative flow observed:
Political turmoil (reds vs. whites, new republic troubled).
Ecological crisis (fish half‑cooked, famine in Rhodes/Genoa).
Astrological signs (Mars, Mercury, silver).
Military campaigns (Arras, Bourges, Gascons, Rhône).
Succession disputes (Duke, Gallic branch in Florence).
Church conflict (cock vs. eagle, Cardinal of France).
Floods, leader’s disappearance.
Rise of a great Prince (Bourbon blood).
Violence spreading (Provence, Papacy lost, Barbarians).
End: cruel ruler facing downfall.
This reads as a unified prophetic narrative, not random snippets.
5. Astronomical Dating Within Blocks
Many blocks contain specific planetary alignments (e.g., “Sun and Mars conjoined in Leo,” “Saturn in Libra”).
These can be checked against ephemerides to find possible historical or future dates.
Example: “Saturn in Taurus, Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars in Sagittarius” occurs in 1506‑1507, 1650‑1651, 1795‑1796, 1854‑1855, 1998‑1999, 2058‑2059, etc.
Such alignments can anchor a block to a specific period.
6. Why This Suggests Intentional Design
Spacers occur only at missing quatrains, not randomly.
Blocks maintain thematic continuity across different centuries and quatrain numbers.
Century 11 sixains (different rhyme scheme) integrate seamlessly into blocks — suggesting they belong to the same original text.
The reorder (C7‑C12 then C1‑C6) bookends the text with matching Latin verses, possibly marking the true start and end.
7. How to Verify Independently
Follow Steps 3.1–3.6 exactly.
Pick any block after the first spacer. Read it aloud in sequence.
Note if you see a “story” emerge.
Check astrological mentions against an ephemeris for date clues.
Compare with a control: shuffle stanzas randomly, re‑insert spacers in same positions, and see if random blocks feel as coherent.
8. Implications
Nostradamus may have written linearly, then obscured the text by splitting it into centuries and omitting stanzas at section boundaries.
This gives a new way to read the prophecies: by block, not by century.
Previously opaque quatrains may become clearer when read in context.
Future research could map all blocks, date them astronomically, and compare with historical events.
9. Invitation
This is presented as a testable structural hypothesis, not a final solution.
The author invites scholars, code‑enthusiasts, and Nostradamus readers to:
Replicate the reordering and block extraction.
Analyze block coherence for themselves.
Share findings, confirmations, or refutations.
Collaborate on mapping all blocks and dating them.
Data (spreadsheet with full reorder and missing‑quatrain map) is available upon request.