Nostradamus was an apothecary and prophet of the sixteenth century who wrote prophecies based on his unique version of astrology that are still applied to events today. Altogether, he is credited with over six thousand prophecies, many with similar language to other seers and historical records and holy books.

Most of his predictions can be associated with disasters, both natural and supernatural, such as homicides, earthquakes, volcanoes, war, floods, etc. It is claimed that he prophesied the French Revolution, the world wars, Adolf Hitler, and even the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. In many cases, these predictions can only be applied to his prophecy quatrains in retrospect, but even applying them retroactively, they seem appropriate for the event ... eerily so. In addition, many 2012 apocalypse proponents say that Nostradamus predicts the world's end, a global catastrophe, on December 21, 2012, in conjunction with the Mayan calendar's end and the Book of Revelation.

His prophecy about the end of the world through global climate change or solar impact upon the world, echoes Revelation when he says that the comet or planet impact will cause World War III. After the world war, he predicted that there would be the thousand years of peace (again, compare to Revelation's millennia of Jesus's reign on earth). Others interpret the cause of the global catastrophe in a different way, but the basic spirit of the quatrain is one of death, destruction, and despair yielding eventually to a new age. But as hopeful as that sounds, the 2012 date, only a few years away, marks the beginning of chaos. It is hard to see the light at the end of that tunnel when so many people will be effected in such horrible ways.

Many people who believe that the world is ending on December 21, 2012, believe that the end date is when the confluence of global and even cosmic events reaches a snapping point when everything has to change - our way of life, the state of the world, the state of consciousness. They see the events around them - 9/11, the failing economy, the widespread wars, the nuclear threat, the dwindling resources, - as evidence that something has got to give. They believe that this increase in negative energy has to do with our approach toward the "dark rift" of the galaxy thought to happen in 2012.

The sun will align with the plane of the galaxy in an occurrence that only happens every 26000 years, the Mayan calendar's Long Count cycle. It is presumed that this means only catastrophe, a staple in Nostradamus's many predictions for the centuries after his death. In an unusual coincidence, perhaps, Nostradamus died on December 21.

Gordon Leon a Survivalist, Futurist & Author stumbled across the 2012 Planet X phenomenon in 2007 while researching abnormal weather patterns around the globe, after much investigation he found the majority of the indigenous people and ancient prophecies such as the Mayans, Hopi Indians, Nostradamus, the Bible, all reaching the same conclusion. There will be significant Earth and climate changes that will affect us all; what was most disturbing to Gordon was the fact that nobody had come up with a plausible solution to these problems, being an accomplished survivalist and futurist he decided to write an engaging two part book on how to survive the coming disasters of 2012.