Nostradamus C8 Q56: Astrologer guides a contrite pope on climate change
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, Jan 2023

This verse is another of Nostradamus ways of rejecting popular beliefs that his methods involved astrology.

In his day he did write horoscopes for important clients,but those more famous for that art decried his efforts as being astrologically unsound. In his only verse in Latin C6 Q100 he says in his third line Let all astrologers, barbarians  and idiots stay far off.

The anagrams in the third line of the curent verse go a long way to revealing Nostradamus assessment of astrologers.

This is the only verse where there is an anagram based on that root. In that line there are anagrams for Astrologer persuades contrite Pope but there is also one of the five occurrence of 'roots'. That last term justifies its inclusion in the current series.

The structure of this word sequence comes from Astrologer (a Le gros tro) persuades contrite (rs peau deſ_tre coin t) Pope / Pape (oppe /a). This can be extended by other anagrams saying larger roots in trouble.

There is an asterism in the first line of the verse and it is the name of the eye of Taurus, Aldebaran. And in the same line there is also anagrams for 'correct letter'. The lettering alongside these terms allow us to read correct letter of Aldebaran.

Now in Nostradamus day there was still an ongoing controversy over the way to spell that name. It is in this context that the text of the verse makes sense.

The herd in the third line identifies Taurus while the rest narrates the debate around the name of its brightest star.

The singular appearance of astrologer in this one verse compared to the eight for astronomy classifies the source of astral knowledge used by astrologers as only worth entering to declame his pwn usage of that art,

However Aldebaran is a good focal point for Nostradamus purpose since it is well known to all who view the skies.. It is one of the four stars called the Royal stars and these four were acornerstones of the skies for ancient astrology.

They were called the guardians, as were the Little and Big Bear at a later date, but the difference was the Bears were guardians of the Pole Star while the Royal Stars were based on  four equal regions marking out the heavens in an equatorial manner.

The above is the reason I pair  C8 Q56 with C1 Q51 in the Astronomy roots series. Each of the two verses helps define the foundation of the critical date mechanism in Nostradamus' Prophecies. Their contrasting content shows his foundation is astronomic and not astrologic.