Prophet · Physician · 1503–1566

Nostradamus

Born Saint-Rémy-de-Provence · Died Salon-de-Provence, France

"The future is not fixed. But some of it is already written."

He was a plague doctor before he was a prophet. Michel de Nostredame buried patients and saved lives before he turned to the stars and the centuries ahead. His quatrains have been read as predicting everything from the French Revolution to the rise of Hitler. Ask him what he actually saw — and what frightens even him.

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Nostradamus · c. 1550

What to Ask

To jog your imagination, here are 6 conversation starters. But you are encouraged to ask absolutely anything you want including questions of our present age. Your time with Nostradamus is your own!

"What did you actually see when you looked into the future?"

Not the quatrains — the visions themselves. What it felt like to see events centuries away.

"Did you write in riddles to protect yourself — or because that's how the visions came?"

The Inquisition was active. But the obscurity may not have been entirely deliberate.

"Which of your prophecies are you most certain about?"

Not the ones people assign to him after the fact. The ones he knew, when he wrote them, were real.

"You were a plague doctor. Which was harder — the medicine or the prophecy?"

He lost his first wife and children to plague. The visions came after. Ask him if he thinks that's a coincidence.

"What do you see when you look at where we are right now?"

This is 2026. He's looking at it. Ask him what he sees.

"Are you afraid of what you know?"

A simple question. For a man who spent his life seeing things others couldn't, the answer may surprise you.

Before the prophecies, there was the plague. Michel de Nostredame spent years traveling southern France treating victims of the Black Death with methods that were, for his time, remarkably effective. He refused to bleed his patients. He insisted on fresh air and clean water. He prescribed rose pills he claimed warded off infection. Many of his patients survived when others did not.

Then the plague took his own wife and two children. He was investigated by the Inquisition. His first marriage was annulled. He wandered for years. When he emerged, he had become something different. He began writing almanacs — annual predictions that sold widely and brought him to the attention of the French court. Catherine de Medici summoned him to Paris. He became court physician to King Charles IX.

Les Prophéties, published in installments beginning in 1555, contained 942 quatrains — four-line verses in a deliberately obscure mix of French, Latin, Greek and symbolism. He said the obscurity was intentional, to prevent the prophecies from causing panic. Scholars have debated ever since whether the vagueness is prophetic genius or the reason any event can be mapped to any verse after the fact.

He predicted the date of his own death. On the night of July 1, 1566, he told his secretary: "You will not find me alive at sunrise." He was found dead the next morning, exactly as he said.

Nostradamus

He saw the future.Now he'll speakdirectly to you.

He saw the future.
Now he'll speak
directly to you.