Having A Whale of A Time

This last week two whales, a Mom and her Calf, swam up the Sacramento River Delta in California and have been attracting huge crowds and people with all kinds of ideas about how to get them to turn around and swim back to sea. Whales are the most glorious creatures on earth, why not just let them swim around in the Port for awhile? (The Mayor got on the TV and told us all not to come visit because there wouldn't be any bathrooms or hot dogs stands for us once we got there. Lol. No Barnum & Bailey shit out in Sack O-Tomatoes, that's for sure).

The Whales have cuts on their sides supposedly from boat propellers and the Scientists are concerned that they won't heal properly without the ocean salt water. Have you ever poured salt on a wound? Anyway, Scientists know best. The Whales will use up all their blubber if they don't get back to their food source. The Coast Guard has been trying to lure the Mom and Baby out by playing whale songs underwater. That was a no go. Then the Scientists said they would let the whales have the week-end off. That's a weird thing to say. The whales were turning into a total spectacle, I can't imagine it would be relaxing to be gawked at by 30,000 parents and their screaming babies from the shore.

But, anyway, it worked. At 3:30 pm yesterday, May 20, the whales suddenly turned around and started swimming downsteam. For no reason. For no reason? I had to look at the chart and there's no way I'm going to believe they weren't prodded. Libra Rising with Mars in Aries right on the Descendant within a few degrees of the Vertex. Jupiter and Pluto were in the 3d house, Jupiter in Sagittarius opposite Mercury in Gemini in the 9th house. Was this the work of the, like, 10,000 or so animal communicators who live in Northern California? Or was some scuba diver swimming around them with a pitchfork?

Anyway, the Moon was in Cancer along with Venus, both in H10. So maybe the whales just got homesick. (Since Moon in Cancer is so psychic I kind of wonder if it wasn't the communicators). The Sun was on the last degree of Taurus moving into Gemini and also is on the cusp of the 9th house, one of the travel houses. So today is a great day for swimming the 90 miles downstream where the Navy will no doubt be blasting its low frequency sonar and the tourists will be out in their boats ready to shave off more of the animal's bodies with their propellers. Oopsy.

The last time a whale swam up the Delta was 22 years ago in 1985. He was named Humphrey. His first appearance was Oct. 10, 1985.

ADDED: Now I've read that the whales started heading down the Delta at 2:30pm and that they started to turn back sometime during the night. There were two mild earthquakes yesterday afternoon in the San Jose area which is about 150 miles South. A 2.1 magnitude hit at 3:42pm in Milpitas and a 3.4 magnitude hit San Jose at 4:10 pm.