Century II - 41
The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will make two suns appear:
The large mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff changed territory.
- Nostradamus
Not all New Year's Days are created equal and this one coming up happens to be a special one. The previous one was special as well, both being attached to the year 2016, the point of no return. And if the pattern holds, we are in for a whole new set of inter-temporal "clues" which, if decoded properly, should be quite prophetic in nature. Decoding these things happens to be my specialty, or obsession...
It's telling that
The Economist's annual, end of the year crystal ball edition features a cover with
tarot cards. Obviously they were inspired by the irresistible combination of "Trump" (cards) and the idea of divination (predicting the future). Not too surprising there.
(What is surprising though is how most people trying to "decode" it can't even crack the first step: The only two tilted cards, "Judgment" and "The Star", are card #20 and card #17 per tradition, spelling out "20-17" or "2017".)
The Economist is actually a bit late to the party as there was a whole lot of foreshadowing going on
last year through the tarot symbolism on New Year's Eve/Day
(2015/2016). It came in the form of Dubai's
tower inferno evoking the
Tower card numbered
16 (as in 20
16)...
...in effect foreshadowing the earthshaking rise of "Trump" who famously lives in
Trump Tower (= Tower trump card).
Extending the pattern forward in time would have the new year
2017 correspond to tarot card
#17 - "
The Star".
It would most certainly be
Sirius on
New Year's Eve/Day as a magical celestial moment
arrives every year when the brightest star in the night sky
"culminates" due south reaching its highest point right around midnight on New Year's Eve/Day.
But as I said, it's extra special around 2016. I'm quite aware of this, and it seems so was Nostradamus. Let me introduce you to quatrain II-41, or as I like to call it the "Sirius quatrain":
Century II - 41
La grand' estoille par sept jours bruslera,
Nuee fera deux soleils apparoir:
Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,
Quand grand pontife changera de terroir.
The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will make two suns appear:
The large mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff changed territory.
- Nostradamus
Right now it is highly relevant and timely as shown below:
Line 1:
The great star will burn for seven days
Being the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius certainly qualifies as a "great star". It "burns" in the sense that the name "Sirius" means "scorcher" plus the phrase "Dog Days of summer" derives from Sirius's nickname "Dog Star". Even the "seven days" (sept jours) part relates to Sirius in that ancient Egyptians called the star Spd, Spdt, or Sept, resonating with the French sept meaning "seven. ("Seven days" can also allude to the 7-day festival Saturnalia, Dec 17-23.)
Line 2:
The cloud will make two suns appear
In esoteric tradition Sirius has been considered the "second sun".
Line 3:
The large mastiff will howl all night
Sirius is the "Dog Star" ("mastiff") and it "howls all night" on New Year's Eve/Day by being visible all night long. (Culminating around midnight implies being visible from dusk to dawn.)
Line 4:
When the great pontiff changed territory
The last time there was a change in the papacy was back in 2013 when
Pope Benedict XVI stepped down and
Pope Francis took over. Unbeknownst to most, it managed to multicontextually encode an arrow pointing ahead to the year
2016:
- Pope Benedict XVI is "16" (XVI), numerically resonating with 2016 and the Tower card (XVI)
- Pope Francis's first foreign trip ("changing territory") as head of the Catholic Church was to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2013, where the Summer Olympics would take place in 2016
In the context of the "Sirius quatrain" II-41, it makes a lot of sense for
Rio to be highlighted in this manner. It has to do with the real, hidden reason behind the name "Rio de Janeiro" or "
River of January" which I'm revealing here for the first time anywhere (aside from STRUG/members section which is always ahead)...
Firstly, the term "
January" (Janeiro) derives from
Janus the god of beginnings, endings, time, and doorways. Basically a perfect set of descriptions for
New Year's Eve/Day (= beginning of January).
And it just so happens it's right around New Year's Day, when Sirius "howls all night", that Rio and the Sun are aligned in terms of latitude & declination. In other words, the Sun is directly overhead at noon in Rio right around New Year's Day. Rio in this way indeed is a "city of Janus/January"!
As above, so below...
Sirius is the "
New Year's star" above,
Rio de Janeiro is the "
New Year's city" below. Having established this and
2016 being the year of the
Rio Olympics, we can then quite easily infer that the beginning
and ending of 2016 are of special, "ritualistic" significance. We already saw this in action at the
beginning of 2016 (Dubai tower fire), and we are now about to witness something at the
end of 2016.
The straightforward expectation would be that it would reflect "
The Star" card - #17 representing "2017" - just as the Dubai tower inferno was a simulation of the "Tower" tarot card, #16. This would mean it would likely involve
Sirius on New Year's Eve/Day. (I may actually already know the ritual taking place, but I'll save it for another article, perhaps early next year.)
There is another approach here to discerning the nature of the end of 2016 "ritual(s)". It has to do with the fact that
Rio and the
Sun are also aligned on
~December 10th (equidistant from the solstice).
That "preview" window precisely coincided with a major geopolitical flareup stemming from the apparent
Russian cyber attacks against the US during the 2016 presidential election.
It's an ongoing situation, happening in real time as I write this and it wouldn't be surprising if we hear more about the US retaliation against Russia around the New Year's Eve/Day weekend, such as actual US cyber attacks against Russia.
(I've consistently pointed to the significance of the Russian cyberwar situation since the very beginning. See: Jul 26
tweet, Jul 27
tweet, Jul 30
tweet, Aug 30
update. Here we are, it's like the Cold War has returned.)
Saturnalia (Dec 17-23) was another important window we were watching very closely... (Saturnalia starts on Pope Francis's birthday, by the way.) My tweet from Nov 24:
And it was intense indeed...
Notable as it connects right back to the 2015-2016 New Year's Eve/Day "ritual". The name "Dubai" means "market". And the fire there took place right next to the Dubai's spectacular New Year's fireworks.
Makes us wonder if these constitute an omen foreshadowing a major market/financial event coming in the New Year.
I'm going to end this article here, but really we've just scratched the surface. Just the tip of the iceberg for what's unfolding... because 2016 was a tipping point, the point of no return. We didn't even touch on the earth changes and the sixth mass extinction already being discussed on STRUG...
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