2012 Predictions and Prophecies

2012 Survival Guide: A practical planner for the worst case scenario

This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it.

Hopi Prophecy

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Last Updated: June 19, 2011

Covered in this article:

Roman and Medieval Prophecies
Nostradamus
Edgar Cayce Page 2
Hopi Prophecy and Q'ero IndiansPage 2
St. Malachy's Pope ProphecyPage 2
Biblical Texts and Sir Isaac NewtonPage 3

We don't know why or how, but long ago ancient cultures got the notion that they could predict the future by looking at the night sky. As the legendary Philosopher's Stone succinctly put it, "As above, so below."Fortunately, much of this sage wisdom remains accessible to us today. One of the more popular go-to sources for such intel as it relates to 2012 is the History Channel documentary 2012: End of Days. It features prophecies from civilizations around the world, beginning in ancient Rome with the Cumean Sibyl. Besides predicting the birth of Jesus, she referred to the present day in her Fourth Book of Oracles:

“These things in the tenth generation shall come to pass. The earth shall be shaken by a great earthquake that throws many cities into the sea. There shall be war. Fires shall come flashing forth from the heavens and many cities burn. Black ashes shall fill the great sky. Then, know the anger of the gods.”

Around the Sixth Century A.D., the Celtic shaman Merlin (a.k.a. Myrddin Wyllt) envisioned severe climate conditions and a geological meltdown that would take place, apparently after the invention of the cell phone:

"At that time shall a man standing on the shore of England speak instantly to a man standing on the shore of France through a speaking stone...The seas shall rise up in the twinkling of an eye. The winds shall fight together with a dreadful blast… The planets will run out of their appointed paths and the earth shall run riot through the sky.”

A lesser known English oracle, Mother Shipton (a.k.a. Ursula Southeil), made an even darker forecast:

"A fiery dragon will cross the sky. Six times before the earth shall die. Mankind will tremble and frightened be for the six heralds in this prophecy. For seven days and seven nights Man will watch this awesome sight. The tides will rise beyond their ken to bite away the shores and then the mountains will begin to roar and earthquakes split the plain to shore. And flooding waters rushing in will flood the lands with such a din that mankind cowers in muddy fen and snarls about his fellow men. Man flees in terror from the floods and kills, and rapes and lies in blood and spilling blood by mankind’s hand will stain and bitter many lands.

And when the dragon’s tail is gone Man forgets and smiles and carries on. To apply himself - too late, too late for mankind has earned deserved fate. His masked smile, his false grandeur will serve the gods their anger stir. And they will send the dragon back to light the sky, his tail will crack. Upon the earth and rend the earth and man shall flee, king, lord and serf. But slowly they are routed out to seek diminishing water spout and men will die of thirst before the oceans rise to mount to the shore. And lands will crack and rend anew. Do you think it strange? It will come true!"

Like the elusive Merlin figure, authorship of the Mother Shipton prophecies has never been authenticated by scholars. Regardless, Medieval prophecies correctly describe modern inventions with astonishing detail. It's no wonder that during the Roman Empire, military and political leaders were making regular pilgrimages out to the oracle of Delphi to get consultations on matters of state.

Site of the Oracle at Delphi. Photo: National Geographic Channel.

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After a draught lasting for many years, seven blazing suns will appear in the firmament; they will drink up all the waters. Then wind-driven fire will sweep over the earth, consuming all things; penetrating to the nether world it will destroy what is there in a moment; it will burn up the Universe. Afterwards many-colored and brilliant clouds will collect in the sky, looking like herds of elephants decked with wreaths of lightning. Suddenly they will burst asunder, and rain will fall incessantly for twleve years until the whole world with its mountains and forests is covered with water. The clouds will vanish. Then the Self-created Lord, the First Cause of everything, will absorb the winds and go to sleep. The Universe will become one dread expanse of water.

Markandeya, Hindu sage (cited in Earth Under Fire)

Modern skeptics of course dismiss the power of prophecy, pointing to all the doomsday warnings made by cult leaders that never panned out. Yet the publicity-seeking charlatans of more recent times are not the same as the elusive shamans and prophets of old, and our western culture remains inextricably tied to an astrological past. We still refer to up-and-coming business entrepreneurs as "rising stars". The term "disaster"is an old Latin (i.e. Roman) word meaning "evil star." The words influence and influenza come from the Latin influentia, defined as "the emanation of ethereal fluid from the heavens affectng mankind," as Roy Gallant explains in his 1979 book The Constellations: How They Came to Be. The word desire harkens back to the Latin desidere, which means "without a star, the outcome unfulfilled."

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The Cross at Hendaye and its strange imagery.

It's not just words, either, that connect us to a long tradition of mysticism and sky watching. In the 1920s, a man writing under the pseudonym Fulcanelli published The Mystery of the Cathedrals, a controversial book alleging that Medieval mason guilds encoded astrological communiques into the churches they built throughout Europe. As fascinating as that revelation was, decades later a chapter was surreptiously added to the book, entitled "The Cyclic Cross at Hendaye." It claimed that an old stone monument outside a French church bears a cryptic message about the end of the world.

In the History Channel documentary Nostradamus 2012, authors Vincent Bridges and Jay Weidner interpret the strange symbols on the stone. The two men researched the cross and shared what they found out in their book Monument to the End of Time. For example, the star (see above right) represents the Milky Way Galaxy, Bridges and Weidner suspect, while the unhappy face in the circle is the Sun. The oval that's divided into four sections is a reference to the Precession of Equinoxes.

Moreover, each quarter cycle signifies a world age - Golden, Silver, Copper/Bronze and Iron. In a 2004 interview, Weidner said of the 2012 doomsday prediction, "Fulcanelli clearly tells us that this catastrophe will not only herald the end of the Iron Age but will also be of a celestial nature. Indeed the angry sun face on the Cross indicates that this disaster has something to do with the sun." For more on precession, see Ancient Method for Caclulating Cataclysms.

As luck would have it, the psychic Nostradamus grew up several blocks across town from the Cross of Hendaye. In the 16th century, he predicted that in five hundred years the full impact of his own prophecies would be realized. Among the hundreds he penned in his famous book of quatrains in the 1550's are these:

"In the month of October, a massive movement of the globe, such that there will be those who will think that the planet has lost its gravity, being plunged into the abyss of darkness...There will be omens in the spring, and extraordinary changes thereafter, reversals of nations and mighty earthquakes... During the appearance of the bearded star, the three great princes will be made enemies. Struck from the sky, peace earth quaking, Po, Tiber overflowing, serpent placed upon the shore.”

Like Book of Revelation prophet John of Patmos (see next page), Nostradamus also warned readers to be on the lookout for the anti-christ. Actually, he predicted three such characters that would terrorize the world in turn. While Napolean and Hitler are thought to represent the first two, the third is still undetermined.

In recent years, the History Channel has aired numerous documentaries about Nostradamus, even dubbing a 2009 series on the occult The Nostradamus Effect. However, its most successful broadcast to date remains Nostradamus 2012, which interweaves prophecies from many cultures with the forecasts of the French visionary. Here are some of the quatrains cited in the program:

Century 1: 29
When the fish that travels over both land and sea
is cast up on to the shore by a great wave,
its shape foreign, smooth and frightful.
From the sea the enemies soon reach the walls.

Century 2: 3
Because of the solar heat on the sea
From Negrepont the fishes half cooked:
The inhabitants will come to cut them,
When food will fail in Rhodes and Genoa.

Century 5:32
Where all is good, the Sun all beneficial
and the Moon is abundant, its ruin approaches:
From the sky it advances to change your fortune.
In the same state as the seventh rock.

Century 5:98
At the forty-eighth climacteric degree,
At the end of Cancer very great dryness:
Fish in sea, river, lake boiled hectic,
Béarn, Bigorre in distress through fire from the sky.

The latitude designated in the last quatrain, incidentally, corresponds to the location of bread baskets in the northern hemisphere, which include the midwest United States.

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