NEW YORK POST
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.
When have Nostradamus’ predictions come true?
The Frenchman was credited with forecasting the powerful earthquake that rocked Japan this past New Year’s.
Outlining his predictions for 2024, the oracle wrote, “The dry Earth will become more parched and there will be great floods.”
The psychic’s followers reckoned that he could’ve been referring to the 7.5 magnitude tremor that struck the nation’s Western coast, killing 48 people, toppling buildings, and sparking 3-foot-high tsunamis.
Nostradamus’ predictions for 2024 also included the abdication of King Charles, war with China, a new pope — and the world edging ever closer to a climate apocalypse.
How’d he do?
Both the Pope and King Chuck are still sitting pretty on their respective royal and papal thrones, though the latter recently stopped paying an allowance to his embattled brother Andrew.
In June, United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told security officials that war with China was “neither imminent nor unavoidable” so we’ll call that a draw. The same goes for climate change which is killing us slowly but not without vigor.
While Nostradamus did not predict Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential win, American political historian Allen Lichtman, known as the “Nostradamus” of elections, erroneously assured us that Harris would be the victor.
Nostradamus predictions for 2025
With a bone toothpick in hand and a weary eye on the year ahead, read on for our overview of Nostradamus’ predictions for 2025.
A potential end to the Ukraine conflict
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