Nostradamus C.1 Q.16 : The giant axle of the Polestar times the onset of great mutations. This verse goes close to giving a summary of Nostradamus' Prophecies. Its text references an astronomic setting and its themes are consistent with those I set out in Astronomy, Mutations and Nostradamus on War. The anagrams are also quite powerful and give supporting detail to the same themes. Those for axle, signation and verticalness deliver an image of a cross-piece  that turns until it reaches a vertical position which is consistent with the Polestar reaching its closest approach to the North Pole in 2105CE. It is from this dating and the anagrams for Noah's deluge in the second line that I was able to propose a date for the giant floods that Nostradamus prophesied. The anagrams for minimal militiamen and limit militia imply there will be peace before the warnings in the text take place.   C.I Q.16 Scythe joined to the pond in Sagittarius at its highest increase/trough of its exaltation. Plague, famine, death from military hands; the century approaches its renewal. Faulx a l'eStang ioinct vers le Sagitaire En Son hault auge de l'exaltation PeSte famine, mort de main militaire Le Siecle approche de renouation. Anagram Clusters contained in French text <al'egations verticalneSs><contrives giant axleS Failure><a regaliSts cognitive Failure> <noticing leverS><Signation [a sign in the form of a cross]><leSser taleS invocating Flexura [bending]><Stealing icon><antignoStic><ventricles><coining>largeSse eviction ionic Sealant <axle Enstation noahS deluge> <al-haut deluge exaltation><intonates al-haut Son> <a reSPite in militiamen fame><immoderate infame [to defame] PeterS militia><morn-time fateS limit maiden><dreamt omen><minimal demoter infame PeterS> feminate mediator manifeSt <prophecieS-declare><eSpecial eLation><paper echoed><LouiS antoine (dauphin who abdicated 1830+ ) cheered> place SiLence LioniSe / eLiSion> FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries 'giant axles'. verticalness, al'egations ('=l),regalists, cognitive, noticing, antignostic, invocating, coining, eviction, exaltation (no anagrams), immoderate, morntime, Louis-Antoine contrives, signation, ventricles, Al Haut, minimal, militiamen, feminate, mediator, manifest, cheered, elision / lionise enstation intonates axles, ionic, axle (2 in this verse) flexura, stealing, especial failure, Noah's, militia, elation - limit, echoed demoter, silence - largesse / large-ess - levers / revels dreamt, respite infame, fates - sealant - - maiden - place