Spirit Guide of the Day is Humpback Whale! Music is an important force in your life right now. Take time to play and listen to music, even possibly taking voice lessons to help with your singing and self-confidence. Allow yourself to engage in the beauty of your own personal song. Take the next year or so to focus on exploring the use of sound and vocalization for healing. Moving with the flow of life will aid you in learning how to harness your confidence and the opportunities around you. Don't let fears get in the way of showing yourself to others, instead surface more often and reveal more of yourself to others. Allow yourself to be proud of who you are and the accomplishments that you have achieved. Through this, you will gain the strength needed to break through any barriers that are holding you back. There may be a significant person who encourages you to reach higher and express your creativity in a way that matches you. The Humpback Whale, along with many other Whale guides, are known for being a storehouse for the deep ancestral DNA of life. Allowing us to connect deep within to ourselves and our ancestors. Know that self examination will aid in your healing and a depth of understanding of who you are. People who connect with Humpback Whale enjoy singing and chanting, anything concerned with vocal expression while using this love and skill for fantastic communication skills. These individuals are comfortable with their emotions, able to express complex ideas clearly using body language and vocalization. They are social creatures that do take some solitary time, liking to move from one place to another as the seasons change.

Humpback Whales, Megaptera Novaeangliae, are omnivorous mammals that reside throughout the large Ocean waters of the world. These massive creatures can weigh as much as 40 tons and reach up to 62.5 feet long. They travel in groups called Pods where mother Humpbacks will swim closely with their young, often touching flippers in signs of affection. Females will nurse their young for nearly a year and the calves do not reach full adult size until they are ten years old. Courtship rituals happen primarily during the winter months, where males will gather into competition groups around a particular female and fight for the right to mate with her using techniques such as tail-slapping, pectoral fin-slapping, breaching, charging, and more. Humpback Whales migrate, swimming annually from summer breeding grounds near the poles to warmer waters near the Equator during the winter. They are strong swimmers, using their massive tail fin called a Fluke to power themselves through the water easily. As with other whales, they often leap out of the water in a behavior called Breaching and scientists are still researching reasons why they do this. Theorized reasons including possibly cleaning pests off from their skin or simply just for fun. Humpbacks are known for their singing, possessing a wide range of vocalizations from cries and moans to howls and other complex noises that continue for hours and can reverberate great distances throughout the ocean. These whale songs are most likely used to communicate with each other and to attract potential mates, most of the complex singing is done by Males. Whales within a large area will sing one particular song such as all North Atlantic humpbacks singing one song while those of the Noth Pacific sing another. Each populations songs change slowly over a period of years without repeating. These air-breathing mammals much surface to take in air, even keeping part of their brains awake during sleep to rise and breathe before diving back down again. Feeding occurs mainly during the summer along coastlines on creatures such as small fish, plankton, and krill, living off of fat stores primarily during the winter. They hunt by either direct attacks or through stunning prey by hitting the water with fins or flukes. One of the most unique forms of hunting techniques found in Humpback behavior is called Bubble Net Feeding. A group of whales will swim in a shrinking circle while blowing bubbles below a school of fish or krill. The shrinking ring of bubbles encircles the school and will keep them trapped in a tightening cylinder. Some whales will blow the bubbles while others dive deeper to drive the fish towards the surface, even more whales will herd prey into the bubble net by vocalizing. Whales will then suddenly swim upwards through the bubble net with their mouths agape, swallowing thousands of fish in one gulp. Humpbacks Whales are in the group of Baleen whales, possessing pleated grooves in their huge mouths that are used to filter out water from the huge scoops of fish and water they swallow while hunting.