Fortune teller Nostradamus has made five chilling guesses for next year

Looks like we are in for a big year

Five chilling predictions for 2023 have been revealed by French astrologer Michel de Nostradame. After predicting that King Charles III is set to abdicate the throne soon  people who following his prediction have been pointing out 2023 looks a bit bleak. While French mystic astrologer de Nostradame, who wrote the 6,338 prophecies, died on 2 July, 1566 - his worldly predictions have proved to be scarily accurate, with over 70 percent having been reported by Yearly-Horoscope as actually having come true. He has been attracting more attention this century for seemingly predicting events such as the Iraq War, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and even 9/11. So what do we have in store for 2023?

World War 3

[caption id="attachment_331833" align="alignnone" width="2048"] More war? (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)[/caption] Firstly up, the conflict in Ukraine caused by Russia's invasion is predicted by Nostradame as growing even bigger and even turning into a full scale World War III. The forecast is based on a line Nostradame wrote, which reads: "Seven months the Great War, people dead of evil-doing."

Another war

It must be noted that, it could also refer to the conflict going on in Southeast Asia between China and Taiwan and the possibility of nuclear-related conflict.

Space

Not everything is ab0ut war and death though. One of Nostradame's predictions claims there could be a huge breakthrough in space next year. The astrologer wrote that a light will 'fall' on Mars, suggesting an opening up of possibility. Are humans going to be visiting the fourth planet from the sun by 2023? Someone check in on what NASA, Elon Musk and Jeff Besoz are up to?

Someone check on the Pope

[caption id="attachment_351123" align="alignnone" width="1914"] Pope Francis, 85,, Via Getty[/caption] Nostradame has prophesied that the religious leader will step down by 2023, with a rather menacing leader taking his place. The prediction reads: "In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will be Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. "The End." A 'celestial fire on the Royal edifice' has also been predicted by the astrologer, which suggests the whole world changing in a significant manner. Is this what they call 'end times'?

New world order

However, Nostradame also speaks of a 'new world order', which will see the alliance of two powers - potentially a man and women - coming together. But, his guess is that it won't be a lasting union. So basically, it sounds like we shouldn't really be getting our hopes up for 2023. Related links:

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