On the agenda for 2025: political upheavals directly shaking Europe, global warming which continues to accelerate and a serious economic crisis leading to food and medical shortages. This catastrophic scenario which hardly makes you want to celebrate New Year’s Eve was written by the pen of Michel de Nostredame, known as Nostradamus, a French astrologer, apothecary and doctor born in 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
After years spent traveling in France and Italy to study medicine and develop new remedies, Michel de Nostredame returned to settle in his native Provence around the middle of the 16th century. It was here that, in 1550, he published a first almanac containing predictions for the coming year. Under the name “Nostradamus”, he wrote this divinatory calendar based on his knowledge of astrology – a field particularly studied by doctors of the time, convinced that the movements of the stars and planets exert a direct influence on the human body. .
Michel de Nostredame’s almanac becomes a one-off event. Each year, the Provençal author releases his predictions for the coming twelve months and begins to acquire a certain notoriety in the community, but his divinatory methods remain obscure. The author advocates astrological calculation, meditation and spiritual elevation in search of a divine message. In fact, he would have rather drawn inspiration from ancient texts and pre-existing prophecies, combined with the reading of horoscopes drawn up by himself, the accuracy of which leaves something to be desired.
Regardless, Nostradamus moved up a gear in 1555 and published The Prophecies. This vast work, according to his own words, would contain predictions for the future, going up to the year 3797. Success was there and opened the doors of the court to him…
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