More About "The Whale"

Since I've been posting about Whales so much lately thought I'd look up the publication date for Moby Dick.

Wikipedia says that the book was published in the United States on Nov. 14, 1851, New York: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick. It was published a month earlier in Britain.

Whale, how about that Water Imagery? Neptune in Pisces, it's own sign. Sun in Scorpio. Moon at noon is at 1 Leo. There's a possibility that it could be considered a last degree of Cancer. That would certainly fit with "force of nature" imagery.

And there was a conjunction of Saturn-Pluto-Uranus over the Aries-Taurus cusp which was opposing Jupiter in Scorpio so we have major outer planet activity.