Many today wonder what the future holds. We want to know how things will turn out, and we secretly hope they will turn out well for us. We humans usually do a rather poor job predicting, but that doesn't stop a lot of us from trying. Each year we see a new crop of psychics telling us what is going to happen.
Some predictions turn out to be right, some wrong.
Nostradamus was a French astrologer, a Roman Catholic of Jewish ancestry, who lived from 1503 to 1566. Though educated in philosophy and medicine, he began to make predictions about 1547. He claimed to receive spirit guidance for these predictions. They were written up in poetic form, in four-line quatrains, and these were grouped by hundreds, called centuries. They were published in 1555 as The Centuries , and a second expanded edition was issued in 1558.