The Cicadas

I have a feeling there's a lot of Geminis in the Bug and Bird World.

The Cicadas are pretty weird bugs. For one, they're kind of ugly. For two, they live as adults for only 30 days out of their 13 or 17 years. For three, they live to, how shall we say? procreate? I mean, they're always born end of May, beginning of June. They climb a tree, pop out their wings, and go at it for 30 days, singing their heads off so loud they can drown out a blender (90 decibels). They lay their eggs. They die. They don't have to raise their kids the lucky dogs. Their survival tactics are to emerge in mass force, do their thing and die before predators can eat them all.

What are they doing as nymphs underground for all those years? I read that they just suck on the sap from the roots of the trees. I had a neighbor who lived the same way but I don't think he was ever planning on emerging...

This year's cicadas are called Brood XIII. Doesn't that sound like something that Angelina Jolie would belong to? She's a Gemini after all.

Sounds Pluto because he's the God of the Underground. Sounds like the Persephone Myth because she's the Girl that Pluto abducted. Their last emergence was in 1990 when Persephone was in Cancer and now she's in Virgo. Pluto's orb is highly irregular and these guys run like clockwork. Alas, I can't find a relation to the 17 year cycle. Maybe connected to a Mercury Retrograde cycle or something ala Erin Sullivan.