HAPPY NEW YEAR
The fireworks have ended (hopefully) and those damn pesky resolutions are being made (and are seldom followed) a new year begins and thoughts of the old are left by the wayside.
The first day of a new year and what better time for me to offer up the predictions of Nostradamus for 2025….
But first the family will drop by for we have a tradition of corned beef, cabbage, black-eye peas and cornbread as the first meal of the new year.
That out of the way….what does old Nostie have to say for 2025?
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to talk doomsday, my babies — and no one grips us with grim quite like Nostradamus.
Nostradamus, Nos if you’re nasty, was a 16th-century astrologer, plague doctor, accused heretic and bearded seer who has been credited with foretelling the Great Fire of London, Hitler’s rise to power, the Sept. 11 attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and last year’s New Years Day earthquake, to name a few.
Referred to as the “prophet of doom,” Nostradamus’ bleak worldview is believed to have been shaped by heavy doses of the Old Testament and the trauma of losing his wife and young children to illness, presumably the plague. Unable to cure the ones he loved most, it seems he set out to forewarn the rest of us through his revelations of ruin.
Sometimes right on the money but more often than not missing the mark, our man’s prophecies lean towards conflagration and catastrophe.
With the publication of his famed book “Les Prophéties” in 1555, Nostradamus gifted the world and its future generations a quasi-poetic tome that predicts wars, pestilence, natural disasters, civil unrest, political assassinations and other such lighthearted fare.
Heavy on language like “blood rain,” the book is an enduring classic, and with 2025 on the horizon, we’re looking at what fury and hellfire lay in store.
But first, a look back.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/lifestyle/nostradamus-predictions-for-2025-what-to-prepare-for/
Old Nostie seems to be stuck on Doom and Gloom….I take his stuff with a grain of salt….but that is just me.
Make a list and let’s see how accurate these ramblings are….I am not one that holds his predictions in high regard….but I will give him a chance to impress me.
This is for all those readers that may have celebrated a bit too much last night….and to add to the bad head some history.
Picture the scene: a disheveled man stumbles through the Forum, his wine-stained toga bundled haphazardly around his torso. At his feet, a smattering of empty amphorae lie strewn across the floor, their contents greedily imbibed by the convivium’s attendees. Saturnalia has been wild this year, but the December festivities are drawing to a close and it’s time to go and lie down with a cabbage on your head.
Fast-forward a couple of millennia and we’re still partying our way through the darkness of mid-winter, though our green hangover remedies now tend to come in smoothie form. Personally, I’ve never had much relief from blended kale and ginger, so this year I’m going old-school and trying out some of the ancient world’s top cures for alcoholic remorse.
https://www.iflscience.com/do-ancient-hangover-cures-still-stand-up-77267
Let’s begin this journey together…..I look forward to my readers input in the coming year.
The only sure cure for that hangover is not overindulge….pretty simple.
I hope all my readers have a great day and a better new year….
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”