The authors rules for interpreting Nostradamus’ Prophecies.

The rules I use are very precise and allow me little room to invent different stories when analysing any of Nostradamus’ verses. The guiding principle is set by a statement made by Nostradamus where he states the prophecies have but one meaning.

But the danger of the times, O Most Serene King, requires that such secrets should not be bared except in enigmatic sentences having, however, only one sense and meaning and nothing ambiguous or amphibological inserted.
Nostradamus, 1558 in his Epistle to King Henry

My working framework is achieved by:

1. using sequences of adjacent whole anagrams,
2. requiring the anagrams to be interconnected to each other by their meaning or sense,
3. expecting the resultant words and message to develop Nostradamus' text for that line or verse,
4. finding key anagrams that have low recurrence elsewhere,
5. accepting that Nostradamus' text is meaningful and that words and spelling are purposefully chosen,
6. using the interwoven consistency across and between all the verses in Nostradamus' Prophecies,
7. relying on Nostradamus' use of a past, present and future framework to give his code strength.

Why has the code remained hidden if the method is as simple as both Nostradamus and I suggest? Because it involves one single mind-boggling step and three commonly used moves to transform the original message into the new.  The mind boggling step is that Nostradamus’ anagrams appear to be in modern English, something unacceptable unless Nostradamus could truly see into the future. The three moves are much more pedestrian as they have been in use since ancient times. The following lists the moves in order of performance.

1. split the letters into different groups
2. rearrange them within the new groupings
3. arrange the new words to form a coherent message.

"By means of this, past, present and future become one eternity, for all things are naked and open."
 Nostradamus in his Preface to the Prophecies 1555