Astrology of the Week Ahead — May 26th through June 1st

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today, we're going to take a look at the astrology for the week ahead. That is today, May 26 through June 1. This week is a pretty quiet week in terms of the transits that are coming through. We have a new moon today that we're going to take a look at. We'll be spending a little bit more time on that today, since it's happening today, but only a few transits after that in the week to come.

However, Thursday and Friday, we will be previewing the astrology of June and doing horoscopes for June, so that will keep the content a little bit more full for the week, which is nice. We have a number of transits outside of the New Moon in Gemini, most of them are mercury, uh, around they're happening around Mercury's movements. Mercury will sextile Neptune on the same at the same time that it's making its new moon.

Today, we have mercury trining Pluto and then Mercury cazimi this week. So we're going to be looking at those today. I also am very excited to share a little new segment that I've made about incorporating altar practice into your relationship with astrology. So if that's interesting to you, I'll have a little segment on that that I'll be weaving in today.

I've been working on it for a while. I'm really excited to start sharing this. It'll probably be something that I do at the beginning of every week, so we'll look forward to that today as well. Well, before we get into it, remember to like and subscribe if you're new to the channel. Welcome if you watch regularly and aren't yet subscribed, it takes two seconds to hit the subscribe button, and it really helps us a lot. We appreciate it.

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So the big news for today, May 26 Monday, is that the New Moon is forming. So we're going to see that forming, depending on your time zone late tonight, Monday, May 26 I have it coming in around 10pm central time, which makes it about 11pm Eastern. And that would what would that be? 10 with 8pm Pacific, something like that. So it's this evening.

At any rate, you'll see that new moon coming in, and at the same time today, a little earlier in the day, we're going to see a forming sextile between the ruler of the new moon, Mercury and Neptune in Aries. So there's a lot of busy contacts from Mercury this week. Mercury is the host of the New Moon in Gemini, its own home sign. It is combust the sun right now, but protected by virtue of being in its own sign, or what's called its own chariot, and it is connecting with Neptune in a harmonious sextile.

It's also just separating from a sextile with Saturn, who is freshly in the sign of Aries over this past weekend. So you know, that's a. Very unique signature for the ruler of a new moon combust, but protected from combustion, ruling the new moon and sextile Saturn and Neptune. And, you know, freshly having entered Aries, this new moon cycle will really bring about many of the earliest signs of these two planets in Aries.

This is the first moon cycle we've had that's been truly configured to those planets, both now in the sign of Aries. So we're really going to get a feel for Saturn, Neptune and Aries this cycle. Although what I like about it is that the opening of the cycle is pretty harmonious. Anyway. So that's today, May, 26 New Moon in Gemini. Today, Mercury sextile Neptune is the host of the new moon.

We're going to circle back around to talk about that after I go through the other transits of the week. That'll really be our focus here at the end. Now, the next transit that's coming through is Surprise, surprise, another Mercury transit. If we go forward to one day from now, tomorrow, we're going to see that Mercury in Gemini is now hitting a trine to Pluto.

So the Mercury trine to Pluto follows on the sun's trine to Pluto that we experienced last weekend. Last weekend as the sun was trining Pluto, we also saw the the entrance of Saturn into Aries. So this was one of the transits that we focused on last weekend. Now we're seeing the same transit effectively with a different planet at the same degree, making the trine to Pluto.

That's mercury, host of the new moon. While the moon is just separating from the sun in the sign of Gemini, we get the host of that new moon, trining Pluto. So again, it's a week where we have a very mercurial cycle ahead of us, and that mercurial cycle features a bunch of harmonious aspects to the outer planets early in the cycle, which is really going to give us a feel for the seeding point of the cycle being rooted in these aspects.

Mercury's trine to Pluto, at the outset of a cycle, suggests to me that there is, thankfully a smooth with the sextile to Neptune the sextile to Saturn, then the trine to Pluto. There's a kind of smooth but deep shift happening for mercury. When I see that, I think about things that are Mercury ruled potentially going through the kinds of shifts indicated by contacts with the outer planets.

So for me, when I think of mercury in an Air sign, I think of ideas, intellect, learning, communication, the rational or intellectual qualities in general. Sometimes things like technology or commerce or business organizational techniques or strategies, concepts, the level at which things exist in the realm of thought and idea or or planning, mapping and strategizing, can experience some significant shifts, the way that we're thinking about something, the way we are perceiving something, especially if you're learning or studying a subject, transits like these in a week like this, with a new moon in mercury sign can really be about new the cultivation of new forms of learning or understanding of something, even if you've been studying it for a long time, like myself, as an astrologer, I've been practicing doing this for a long time, but could very well be a week in which I'm learning things that I never thought of before, or I'm approaching something I've done 10 times before, but I'm finding a very new way to do it, the implementation of new thoughts, new ideas, new insights, where there's a level of enthusiasm present that could be a really good thing for this new moon cycle.

All of these, all of these themes and topics seem to have a lot of positive momentum behind them. The early Trine from Mercury to Pluto, which is taking place tomorrow, to me, suggests that there's some deeper level of understanding that we're accessing when Mercury trines Pluto with a, you know, in an Air sign. I'm thinking about the mobilization of intellectual or technological resources.

The reason I say mobilization of resources is that Mercury's trine to Pluto can be very empowering. Trines are thought of as providing strong forms of resource, or resources or momentum or sort of they make positive contributions to something Pluto is called. Pluto means riches and has a strong association with things that empower, but they often Empower as we have to come into contact with the the life, let me put it this way, the life giving power of Pluto is also at times, the.

Is eruptive and has this transformative force that is can feel not entirely stable and in squares or oppositions will often erupt in ways that are actually destructive, even though there may be a simultaneous way in which the contact with Pluto through square opposition provides a fertile life, giving transformative force, but it tends to come with a destructiveness.

Trines and sextiles of Pluto are not usually as destructive, and the eruption of that life giving fertile, deep, empowering energy from Pluto is usually accessed in ways that are slightly like easier, less less problematic, less destructive. So we have the depth and intensity of Pluto empowering mercury, both in air signs. I see that as new ideas, new forms of like new conceptual frameworks, new understanding, new learning, new ways of communicating, new uses of technology, new plans or strategies.

But then I would say simultaneously, the resourcing that we'll encounter, it has a kind of transformative force behind it that's going to be a little edgy and intense, but nonetheless it should feel constructive. So you see that coming right off from the new moon tomorrow, then on the 30th mercury will be cazimi. Now we have to remember that typically when Mercury is this close to the sun, we're dealing with a Mercury that's debilitated because it's getting burnt up.

But the interesting thing with this transit is that the combustion or the cazimi, and hence the combustion is happening in the sign of Mercury's domicile. So we put that all together. We're looking at this is early morning may 30, just after midnight, about one in the morning, Friday, May 30, that the two planets are at the exact same minutes of the same degree.

Like that. You take it forward throughout the day. On Friday, May 30. The two planets will remain at the same degree all the way up until about 10 in the morning. So you probably will start feeling this Thursday the 29th into the 30th. And then if you extend it just a little bit, you get them almost two degrees away by the end of the day on Friday, where you're getting them on two two separate degrees apart, Sun will change over to the 10th degree.

But the point is that it's a very brief window where the cazimi is taking place. Nonetheless, the cazimi with mercury in its chariot is, you could say, a moment of great empowerment for a Mercury that's already strong by sign, when I when I look at something like this, I think to myself, of having the effective intellectual resources, the words, the ideas, the thoughts, the plans, or the cleverness to deal with something a problem or to start something, We're coming right off a new moon, so the impetus to start new things is with us this week.

And so here's a pretty well, well resourced Mercury being empowered at the heart of the sun to speak, communicate, or conceptualize, or even to invent. Mercury is the planet that's associated with inventiveness. Are you inventing because of a block and you have to come up with a solution? Are you inventing something brand new as a part of your business or your personal life? Or is a light bulb moment occurring where you just have greater understanding of something internally in your own psychology, or of something external that you're studying a subject you know, again, like, I would say, a Mercury cazimi coming off a New Moon in Gemini with the trines to Pluto.

This is a week where I expect to feel like I've made progress with something, at least on the level of my understanding, or the level at which thought is is occurring consciously. For me, I think that the the mercury cazimi moment is also a moment where we may feel empowered to speak something or say something, or we may receive a powerful form of communication, an unexpected piece of news or information that comes to us, that provides us with a new starting point somehow now that could be within a process that's already existing somewhere.

So the best thing to do is to look at the whole sign house of Gemini in your birth chart. Get a feel for the topics that are likely connected to all of this as we're speaking about it. Let's circle back around now to the New Moon in Gemini that we are with today. So you can see it's like it's a very mercurial week. I hope I've made that pretty clear.

But let's also talk about some of the other things that are happening in the sky, which and the the thing that comes to my mind right away is the fact that we have Jupiter culminating in the sign of Gemini. This is a moon cycle that brings closure and resolution to Jupiter's full year that it's spent in the sign of Gemini. And so I. Really look at this within the whole sign house of Gemini and and I would like kind of ask yourself the question, What have I learned in what way has my sense of life purpose direction, what wisdom have I gained? Or in what ways have life direction and purpose been clarified, with respect to the topics of this whole sign house, for example, if you have it in the 10th house, then maybe it has something to do with the direction of that your business has been going in that the direction of things in the workplace, or related to your vocation or your skills as a professional.

You know, if you, if you have it in the fifth house. Maybe it's been a creative process. So apply this new moon to the house, the whole sign house of Gemini, in your chart, and then ask yourself, what, what are the lessons that I am now integrating, and that, in a sense, are coming full circle after a whole year of Jupiter being in Gemini, in that house, that, to me is, you know, like one of the first things I would recommend journaling about this week to start the week, if you keep an astrological journal.

Now, I did for years, and I couldn't recommend it more highly at this point in my life. Astrology is such a daily part of my life because of my profession, that I find the journaling sort of redundant, to be honest, but, and that might be you too. But if you are someone who's trying to develop deeper contact with the language and the arcs and the cycles, then journal and ask yourself, you know, since last June, given the topics of this house, what have I learned?

Jupiter is a planet that has so much to say about direction and purpose. Direction and purpose isn't singular. There are many directions and many purposes that we live in a life. And the easiest way to get a sense of what this season of learning and refining, of wisdom and understanding direction and purpose has been about, with respect to Jupiter, is again to look at that whole sign house and its topics, okay?

So not to just like, beat a dead horse here. I'm gonna say saying the same thing over and over, but the new moon here is bringing Jupiter to its close. So if we look forward, you're gonna see that Jupiter enters cancer on June 9, and that is at the time of the full moon. Is it any surprise that the full moon will be happening in Jupiter's sign opposite the sun in Gemini, as Jupiter has finally left Gemini and entered its exaltation in cancer, the full moon is speaking directly to Jupiter's transformation this cycle.

So again, that's why I suggest really meditating on what's been learned through the transit of Jupiter in Gemini, we are going to be doing some horoscopes for sure on Jupiter's enter entrance into cancer. That will be a part of the horoscopes for June that we look at at the end of this week with Dana and Alex and then we'll be breaking down all the major transits of June with Whitney and Alexandra as well.

Um, what I'm going to be doing is, between now and Wednesday, we're also going to be reflecting on Jupiter's time in Gemini, refreshing on that cycle. And I'll provide you with some horoscopes for Jupiter in Gemini through all 12 signs, so that, if you need a little extra help with the process, I'm suggesting you have that. I think we're going to do it. It's either going to be tomorrow or Wednesday. So stay tuned for that.

Otherwise. What else can we say about a New Moon in Gemini? This New Moon in Gemini is picking up a sextile from Saturn and Neptune in Aries. And so I would say that a meditation on boundaries and the dissolution of boundaries that we've created through a more flexible approach, mentally, intellectually and almost ideologically, could be a huge feature of this moon cycle.

And I say that because this is a moon cycle where the hallmark of Gemini is flexibility of thought, playing with the spectrum of light and dark, seeing a lot of gray rather than just black and white, or being able to move and open ourselves fluidly to the play of light and dark as metaphysical opposites that exist in everything that's really Hermes Mercury's talent and So a moon cycle like this in Gemini With Jupiter, you know, Planet of wisdom, culminating in the sign of Gemini.

Might have a lot to do with dualities and being able to see the opposite, being able to flexibly open ourselves to consider something that's very different from the way we regard ourselves or or the way we believe, or the path we take or the approach we believe in, a flexibility of mind is a great tool to have for all of us. That doesn't mean we have to be without belief. It doesn't mean we're amoral. It doesn't mean we're complete relativists or whatever.

But anyone who has a lot of absolute thinking without an. Complement of relative thinking is not operating in the way that Hermes would like us to operate. We'll just put it that way, right? So the more rigid we tend to be in our thought without an accompanying flexibility, the more problematic things become for us in the way that our mind participates in the creation of a life story.

It's not that you can't have firm convictions and hold to a certain way of absolute thinking about certain things, morally, ethically, ideologically, esthetically, relationally, you're going to have principles that you stand on that bring the mind to rest because they're firm and they anchor us at the same time, we always want to be able to approach each unique situation with, you know, an exceptional way of thinking.

It's like, well, what's the unique thing that's needed in this context, in this unique moment? Does my principle work here, or does there need to be a little bit of openness or compromise with respect to how I'm navigating things in this instance? That is what Mercury is always trying to teach us, which is why, by the way, Hermes, as the ruler of astrology, is always trying to teach us the same thing as astrologers.

What you'll find, for example, throughout all of my programs, is, here are these classical, Ancient Rules for delineation. And if you start thinking about them as objective rules in some kind of empirical objective system, you're going to get lost, because this is divination. And the process of divination requires that each unique situation utilizes different tools at different times for different kinds of context, and the way we use tools, if not taken in context, really isn't doing the work of Hermes.

So Hermes, as the teacher of astrology, wants us to have rules, principles. There's a kind of astrology, or like a logos of astrology, that's fundamental, but then application of that is very relative, very fluid, very intuitive, very artful. This is the kind of way that Hermes teaches. Now, other planets have different ways of teaching. Maybe Hermes isn't your favorite, but this is the these are the kinds of lessons that are likely in front of us right now with the New Moon in Gemini.

Now the sextile at the opening to Saturn and Neptune. Again, Saturn and Neptune bring together this sense of boundaries and dualities and dissolution and unity and oneness into a mix. And so I would look at a cycle like this with a sextile, the Saturn in Neptune in Aries, as asking us to consider if there's inflexibility in our thinking, then to get more flexible and fluid and open and let things move across boundaries more fluidly.

On the other hand, if we tend to be someone who is, you know, let's say, overly fluid and open and uncommitted, then this might be a transit that suggests that the instantiation of new boundaries, new discipline, a new a kind of seriousness that is rooted in principles that establish more some kind of groundedness in our mind or our thinking, or the level of our principles take place.

So it could go in either direction. And I think what's important is to just be open to the direction that's presenting itself for each of us personally. So that's all I'm going to say about that. I hope that it's useful again. Probably we have horoscopes at the end of the week for June. We have an overview for June later in the week. So the next two days, what I'll be doing is unpacking the culmination of Jupiter, and then I might say a little bit more about the cazimi of mercury.

Anyhow. Now I'm very excited to share with you a couple of things. One is that for a long time, several years now, I've been in a process, personally that many of you, I've been very open about this in the past, but I was a part of a bhakti yoga community and had taken a name through initiation and then decided that it wasn't quite the right path for me, and I have talked about that at length in other videos, so I won't go back into it.

I took so much away from that tradition and those practices, and obviously, spirituality is a huge part of my life still, but it was just kind of not the exact right container for me, so to speak. So I moved on to other things. I used to have something called bhakti Wednesdays. Bhakti Wednesdays were a way of me bringing a little bit more of the overtly spiritual side of my life and practice as an astrologer into the way that I convey content.

And since then, I've been very slow to go back to anything like that, just because I've needed to think and process what that part of my life looks like in terms of how I want to convey or share it publicly. A lot of reflection needed on that after, you know, the kind of mode in which I last did it publicly, but it's always been something that's on my mind.

As you guys know who watch my channel, I'm someone. Who spirituality is like to me. I see astrology as a spiritual practice. It accompanies other practices in my life that have still existed since the time I left the bhakti yoga community. For example, I have spent a lot of time working on physical health. There's something that was very neglected for me for a long time, and that physical care of my body and well being mentally, emotionally, through exercise and so forth, and healthier living and eating and so so on, has been a huge part of my practice.

But not, not something I've outside of just kind of sharing a little bit of, you know, excitement of my progress or whatever. I've not been like sharing it as a part of the content or anything like that. It just would be weird. But what came to me in the past year was the major practice that's still a part of my life, in terms of my sort of daily spiritual life, is silence.

So I started, after leaving the Bucha community, started going to Quaker services here in the Twin Cities. Those of you who don't know the Quaker background, to put it simply, it's, it has a kind of a Christian background too. But you, you walk into a Quaker service, you sit down, and you sit in seated silence in a group of people for about an hour. That's it, like it's that's it.

Some people maybe move to share an insight or a thought that comes up during the meditation, but otherwise it's just sharing in quiet with everyone else. And the basic belief behind it is that just sitting quietly, we start to connect and commune with the divine. It was so appealing to me because there was no doctrine or dogma. It was just walk in, sit down, share in silence with other souls, and be on your way.

And I, for me, that was that has been really meaningful. Now I have continued that practice, although making it regularly to the Quaker services has proved somewhat difficult because of my schedule, but sitting in silence has been a big deal for me. So in the weeks ahead, there will be an announcement on probably right now, it's looking like Sunday mornings.

I'll be holding space for anyone from the channel who wants to join me online and virtually for a period of sitting in silence. And I want to offer this because I want there to be a way for people who connect to astrology, spiritually, but are looking for, you know, maybe basic, simple spiritual practices that could enhance your journey with astrology.

And so this will be just a time to sit quietly in community, and then afterward, there will be a brief time of being able to share any reflections or insights that came up for us while we're sitting together in silence. That will be something that I'll be hosting offline through, like a zoom and it'll be free, you know, for anyone who wants to attend.

So more on that soon. In the meantime, the other thing that I'm bringing in, which I'll be incorporating into content online, that you'll see every week, will be a segment that I'm calling what's on the altar this week. So we have an altar downstairs, but I decided to build one here in the office. And so slowly, over the past few months, I've been gathering items that are sacred to me to put onto the altar with no particular religion or dogma or doctrine behind any of it, other than things that have really spoken to me and helped me connect with divinity, I guess I'd say.

And what I want to do is just give you some sense of like, this is what my altar looks like, and here's what I'm offering this week. And every week I'm going to be offering something new, and it can serve as a template for you to have your own altar practice. I'll give you a sense of why I'm putting something that I am on the altar as an offering and and kind of the the the idea behind it.

And then you can either use that same thing in your altar practice, or you can use it as inspiration to do something else. If you have an altar and if you don't, that's not a big deal to me at all. This might be just a brief moment for you to also connect with what's being offered. And just even holding it in your own mind, holding it in your the inner space could be valuable as well.

I do highly recommend people who are interested in astrology have a home altar. An altar can be filled with meaningful objects. It could be filled with well before I get going, let me just, let me show you my home altar. All right, so this is my home altar, and there's these. The objects that are on the altar right now are not complete. There's a few things that I've ordered that are still coming.

A Krishna rad has set of deities from India, that's still coming, some other crystals and things like that. But let me tell you a little bit about what you're seeing on the altar here. I'll just mention a few things you can see, Eros and psyche over there, one of my fake favorite Greek myths, that is the. Really all about the it's sort of the Greek equivalent to me of the Krishna Radha duality in India.

I have some Christian iconography, Jesus, Mary across and Saint Francis, all who have very have had significant impacts on my life story and journey. You can see aphrodites up there. Krishna and Radha are up there, Lord Chaitanya, from the bhakti tradition. Is there? I have a bear, because my parents gave me a spirit animal when I was born, just they just picked one, symbolically, it was a bear.

So bears have always been meaningful to me. I have over on the far right, and kind of see a plant the Buddha's feet. There's a skull that I have there for a reminder of the sacredness of death. I believe that's pyrite, if I remember the type of gem that that's, that skull is made of, you can see Lao Tzu sort of there in the corner, representing my very deep love and affection for Taoist philosophy and the I Ching.

You've got the Ramayana characters sitting over here on the left, there's some copper from a mine in Michigan. There's some other crystals there. So anyway, there's a little piece of Ayahuasca in front of Krishna and Radha at the front there, there's praying hands. So all of these things have meaning to me. I think I've got Labradorite over there in the corner. Anyway, all of these are just meaningful to me.

By no means do they have to be meaningful to you, or do they have to represent what you would put on your altar? In fact, I know that for some people, some of the Christian iconography would not be included, and that's okay. I grew up a preacher's kid, so it's been an important part of my journey to have that faith tradition represented, although the way in which they're represented in my psyche is, uh, very different post ayahuasca, right?

So anyway, um, I wanted to show you this first and foremost, just to encourage you to build something like this. This is just a this is sitting right here in my office, and it's just a little place for me to see. The way that I think about this is that these are all of the of these are all sacred images that I believe are just like little, you know, little fractal glimpses of the Divine.

And I see the planets as all little fractal glimpses of the Divine as well. And so for me, there's, you know, I don't really put planetary deities per se on my altar, but I consider these, all of these different representations and images and symbols to be archetypal themselves and reflective of divinity. And so that's that. That's how I do my altar.

You if you haven't made one, make one. It's super fun. If you're not into it, no big deal. Now, what am I putting on my altar this week? I'm putting an apple. The apple that I put up there. I'm I there's many different things you're going to see me do on the altar right one of them is offering something through the lens of food.

But you could offer water, you could offer incense, you could offer candles. I've got candles going right there. There's so many different ways of of offering. And what I see, what do I see as the the role of the apple this week. Very simple, every day after I am finished working out, I typically have an apple in my gym bag and I eat it, and it's super sweet, and it kind of gives me a little bit of carbs, fills me up a little bit right away, replenishes me.

What I'm doing this week is I'm using, I'm offering an apple to the Divine as a way of saying, Every day when I replenish myself after working my body, please help me remember you, and please help me feel gratitude for the life and health in my body. Simple, let this sweetness that I'm gifting all of you, giving to you as an offering. Let the sweetness be a sweetness that goes beyond the taste of the Apple itself and into something deeper.

Every time I enjoy an apple this week, see how simple that is to me, having an altar practice doesn't have to be really, you know, sort of, I don't know, ostentatious, and it doesn't have to be like a big, exaggerated thing. It can be really simple. You could put some flowers on your altar. You could light a candle. You could put a little basin, like a little cup of water.

The point is that what you put there, if you do if whatever you put on the altar, is done thoughtfully and in a way that can help you stay connected in devotional remembrance to the things that are going to happen throughout your week somehow. Then I think it's amazing when I'm going through the transits this week, when I'm noticing and reflecting upon them, they'll probably have a way of weaving themselves into the symbol of an apple, or the way that I experience them.

I'm never trying to create something. I'm never trying to get something, at least in my practice with the altar, I'm just trying to say, help me stay connected. Help me receive the guidance that's always there. And so this week, a simple thing I can do is the Apple because I. Every day I eat an apple. I'm such a creature of habit, and this will hopefully help me stay connected.

Now, I promise you I won't be laboring this every week. Today I'm sort of introducing you to my alter practice and what's on the altar for this week. But in subsequent weeks, what I'll do, typically, the first day of the week is I'll say, here's what's happening this week. Here's what's on my altar this week, and why I want you to use that, if it's if it's helpful, to craft your own altered practice, put on it whatever you want, and find ways of making meaningful ritual in your life.

Because in my mind, when we do that, there's a way in which all of the transits that happen start weaving themselves into our lives more consciously. And it's almost like if you've ever had this happen, if you've ever said to yourself, I'm going to journal my my dreams, and you keep a dream journal next to your bed, all of a sudden you start remembering more of your dreams.

Why is that? Because you've done something intentional to bridge a gap between your waking and sleeping states by putting the journal next to your bed and having an intention to capture some of those dreams and reflect upon them when we have an altar practice. In my mind, it's something very similar. You're just saying, Look, I know there's this world where the gods are always speaking, where divinity is always speaking, and part of it is through these symbols I bring into my life.

And so let me be just a little bit more conscious and intentional about that. All right. Well, all suggestions more on the group meetups for silence that we'll be hosting. I want to make sure I'm really thoughtful about when we're doing them and how regularly, so that's still sort of gestating, but I'm hoping that I'll be clear on that by the summer solstice and have an announcement so that at some point this summer, if you're interested in just meeting up for a kind of meditative quiet time, that you'll have a place to do that and that this truly this channel can be a place for your spiritual practice and give you some tools for developing that that are really easy and open To whoever you may be and whatever path you may be on.

So all right, on that note, we'll sign off for the day after I am done here. Remember, there's an informational video about the year one program. So if you want to come study with us in June, we'd love to see you. All right. Take it easy. Everyone. Bye.