A Kim Carlyle Quatrain from Nostradamus?

In the season of hell stirred shelter
Panicked lepus surround the dead
Jochebed's pain, quietus becomes her
Lo, she stays though she has fled

-- Nostradamus
Century XI, Quatrain 24

The above was sent to me by a friend whose professor at Berkeley is a member of The Mabus Project. Professor X has speculated that this particular quatrain by Nostradamus may be alluding to events surrounding the death of "Honey Vicarro" star, Kim Carlyle. After several long discussions with both my friend and the good professor, I believe we have settled upon the most likely interpretation of this prediction, written by the renowned seer, Nostradamus, over 450 years ago. We think you may find the information gleaned from this quatrain to be eye-opening, to say the very least!

Line 1: In the season of hell stirred shelter

We believe the phrase “hell stirred shelter” is actually a misinterpretation of the words “Helter Skelter” – the title of a famous Beatles song and also the infamous calling card of Charles Manson and his “Family”. This line refers to the nights in August of 1969 when Manson instructed his followers to kill seven people, including 18 yr. old Steven Parent, actress Sharon Tate and her unborn son, hairdresser Jay Sebring, Folger’s coffee heiress Abigail Folger, aspiring actor/writer Wojciech Frykowski, supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. The murderers, Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten, at the behest of their leader, Charles Manson, invaded the property and homes of these victims – in other words, their “shelter” – and proceeded to slaughter everyone they found there with bloodthirsty abandon. In referring to this as the “season” of hell stirred shelter, Nostradamus is giving us a period of months surrounding these terrible murders as a time frame for the rest of the quatrain.

Line 2: Panicked lepus surround the dead

The word “lepus” refers to jack rabbits or hares.

It is a well known historical fact that residents of Los Angeles, most especially those in the entertainment industry, who lived close to the Benedict Canyon home of Roman Polanski and the late Sharon Tate, were in a total panic during the weeks following the murders. Celebrities of all levels of fame lived in dread that they might be the next victims of this psychotic “family” who painted their horrific graffiti of “Helter Skelter” and “Piggy” on walls in human blood. Many packed up their belongings and headed for parts unknown. As author Dominick Dunne recalled, “The shock waves that went through the town were beyond anything I had ever seen before. People were convinced that the rich and famous of the community were in peril. Children were sent out of town. Guards were hired. Steve McQueen packed a gun to Jay Sebring’s funeral.”

It is not unreasonable to believe that Nostradamus would interpret the people he envisioned in this state of fear as rabbits running terrified among the dead.

Line 3: Jochebed's pain, quietus becomes her

According to the Bible, Jochebed was the mother of Moses. With her son facing certain death by way of the Pharoah, who had decreed that all newborn Hebrew males should be drowned in the River Nile, Jochebed took her chances and set Moses adrift on the river in a basket made of bulrushes. Moses was later found by Pharoah’s daughter, Thermuthis, and was raised as part of the Egyptian royal family, a situation that led to the Exodus.

The first part of this line surely refers to a mother’s pain at having to give up her child in order to save its life. Could this be our first hint that Kim Carlyle may have done likewise?

It was widely reported that in late 1968 Kim Carlyle had entered a sanitarium in order to kick a serious drug addiction. But what if that was only a cover story? What if Kim Carlyle had actually gone into hiding during the last months of pregnancy and secretly given birth?

There have always been a number of rumors surrounding Kim Carlyle’s death that hinted that she was involved with powerful men of influence who would have liked nothing more than to have seen her silenced. And yet, we have never been given sufficient answer as to why these shadowy figures would want such a thing. Perhaps, at this point, we should ask ourselves, what if she had become pregnant with the child of one of these highly placed, possibly married, political figures? On the other hand, what if she had conceived with one of her many paramours within the entertainment industry? Or worse yet, what if the man she lived with, Gavin Hurrell, knew himself to be impotent? (As has been hinted at by multiple sources.) How would Kim falling pregnant have affected her relationship with him? And what if, by some miracle, Hurrell believed the child to indeed be his own? What if Kim did not know for certain whose child it was she carried, and what characteristics the baby might bear that would give away its true paternity?

In 1968, any of these reasons (being as Roe vs. Wade was still several years off), could certainly have motivated most women to take desperate action. Not to mention that Carlyle, having been raised a Catholic, may have found abortion - whether done legally in Sweden or illegally here in the United States -- to be a thoroughly unacceptable option.

Friends have stated that Carlyle was especially upset after the Tate/LaBianca murders by the fact that actress Sharon Tate had been only weeks away from giving birth when she was killed. Certainly, the monstrous brutality of that fact made Tate's death that much more horrifying to most women. But was the thought of such a merciless abomination made that much worse for Kim Carlyle, who may have given up her only child for adoption less than a year before? And was this what finally drove the desperate actress to stage her own death? The second part of the line “Quietus becomes her”, i.e. Death becomes her, would seem to indicate that Nostradamus saw this convergence of upheaval as a motivation for Kim Carlyle to consider the ultimate protection that her own death might finally afford her.

Line 4: Lo, she stays though she has fled

And here we have perhaps the most important clue. Notice how it asks us to behold the one who death becomes. And yet, Nostradamus tells us she has “stayed” although she appears to have “fled”. This, above all in the quatrain, would seem to indicate that Kim Carlyle actually did fake her own death. Nostradamus gives us the time period – August to November of 1969. He gives us the circumstances surrounding that period of time – a city filled with fear and in panic over a series of ghastly murders. He gives us Kim’s motivation – the pain of having given up a child in order to save it from some terrible circumstance we can only guess at. And he describes the nature of what she did – creating a situation where she appeared to be dead when, in truth, she had used this morbid charade as a method of her own escape.

This quatrain certainly gives us a lot to think about, doesn’t it? Personally, my head is still reeling.