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[Guest guest]

from John Hogue:

 

Dear friends,

We have recently seen a four-line quatrain prophecy about a village idiot

becoming

the next U.S. president. The prophecy is a fraud attributed to Nostradamus.

There

is, however, an authentic quatrain that bears closer scrutiny in the coming

years.

It could be applied to the future presidency of George W. Bush. It is Quatrain

13

of Century 6 of his prophetic masterpiece, “Les Propheties.”

 

 

(First in 16th-Century French)

 

Vn dubieux ne viendra loing du regne,

La plus grand part le voudra soustenir:

Vn Capitole ne voundra point qu’il regne,

Sa grande charge ne pourra maintenir.

 

(In English)

 

A doubtful one will not come far from the realm,

The greater part will want to support him:

A Capitol, will not want him to rule at all,

His great burden he will not be able to maintain.

 

This “doubtful one” could stand for the intellectually lightweight

president-elect

George W. Bush. The “doubt” could imply some ongoing suspicion throughout his

presidency

that Bush cheated Al Gore (who won the majority of the popular national vote)

out

of the popular vote in Florida by shady tactics. A fraud in the Florida vote

count

effectively gave Bush the necessary electoral votes to “legally” win the

election.

Nostradamus’ use of “doubtful one” could also indicate that with time an ever

larger

shadow of illegitimacy will cast itself across a Bush presidency.

 

The second line might describe a period of attempted healing during the

aftermath

of the election. A time when a majority of the people of America will try to

rally

around their “doubtful” new president.

 

Line three may hint to us who President Bush’s real political enemies are. By

the

way, it may not be the Democrats in the deadlocked Congress. My sense is it will

be the right wing elements of his own Republican Party. But the obstacles do not

end there. Those who “will not want him to rule” could be those men behind the

scenes

that may have put this malleable man into office to be their rehearsed puppet

spokesman

for their agenda.

 

How could those who put him there turn against him?

 

Looking at Bush’s natal astrological chart I see the potential for great

self-delusion

and a predilection for substance abuse. The abuse in this case comes from the

drug

called “power.” (I will speak in detail about his astrology in a forthcoming

bulletin.)

 

 

At some time in his presidency Bush will rebel against his handlers. As his

presidency

becomes more besieged with problems and credibility, he might strive to be his

own

man and cease to listen to his advisers, causing even greater problems and

greater

strains upon himself. The last line, therefore, may describe what I fear is some

nervous breakdown or health problem coming from the overwhelming pressures put

upon

a basically good, yet emotionally and intellectually immature man.

 

Now, with this interpretation said, I wish to caution you all that there is an

even

stronger application for this quatrain for an earlier Republican president; one

respected

by the French people. It must be remembered that Nostradamus saw the future

through

the perception of a Frenchman. If foreigners come into his vision it is because

they

are in some way appreciative of, or are influencing the future of, France. We do

not know how the French will ultimately regard Bush. Indeed the early signs

point

to present day and future ridicule. Be that as it may, on page 448 of my book

“Nostradamus:

The Complete Prophecies,” I applied this prophecy to Richard Nixon back in 1997.

Here is what I said:

 

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“This is [about] Nixon. Nostradamus would not overlook a man who did so much to

change

the course of 20th-century history. But our prophet, ever the pessimist, had

Nixon

to “kick around” long before the controversial American president was born.

 

“In line 1 Nixon is the ‘doubltful one’ who is regarded warmly in France. Even

the

querulous Charles de Gaulle was an admirer. After Nixon’s fall following the

Watergate

scandal, he could still find respect and honors during his visits to the ‘realm’

of France. Perhaps Nostradamus is saying that Nixon is ‘not far’ from being a

Frenchman.

In line 2 the ‘greater part’ supporting Nixon during the 1968 presidential

elections

was what he called the Silent Majority. He declared himself the champion of

normal,

middle-class Americans who were not represented in the turbulent political arena

of the late 1960s. Line 3’s ‘Capitol’ represents Washington DC, and the

Democrat-controlled

Congress of the United States. Their fierce political rivalry with the

Republican

president finally led to their vote for his impeachment, forcing him to resign

from

office. Line 4 depicts a Nixon burdened with the cover-up over Watergate, unable

to maintain power and fulfill his far-reaching geopolitical dreams to end the

Cold

War.”

 

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Time and events will tell whether Nostradamus’ Quatrain 13 of Century 6

describes

the tragedy of a president past, or president future.

 

 

 

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