Jupiter into Cancer — When the Goddess Directs Our Destiny

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

Today we are going to start looking at Jupiter's upcoming entrance into Cancer. This is something that I've previewed on my channel a few times over the past few months, but it's really going to be our focus for the rest of this week.

I went over all of the transits of the week yesterday. If you missed those, it's a relatively quiet week compared to next Monday's entrance of Jupiter into Cancer. So we're going to take this week to really begin preparing ourselves for that planetary ingress.

Boy, there's been just one after another too. You know, Neptune into Aries, Saturn into Aries. Now Jupiter into Cancer. Pretty soon it'll be Uranus moving into Gemini. So I like to take a little extra time to reflect on these transits before they arrive, preparing our souls, preparing our physical lives.

So we're going to take a look at this from a few different perspectives as the week goes on. That will include some horoscopes as well. Today I want to talk about what it might mean for Jupiter, in this very feminine sign of the Moon, to be directing our destiny.

For the next year, Jupiter will spend its time in Cancer from June of this year (2025) through 2026. It takes Jupiter about 12 years to go through the full zodiac, one year per sign, roughly.

And so what does it mean when Jupiter, in the sign of the Moon—temple of the Goddess—is sort of directing our destiny over the course of the next year? We're going to look at that today through an interesting exploration of Jupiter and Cancer that I think you'll enjoy.

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But anyway, all right, let's take a look at the real-time clock and get rolling here with Jupiter in the sign of Cancer.

So today is Tuesday, June 3, and we are rapidly approaching Jupiter's ingress into Cancer. If I take this forward just a little bit, we'll find that Monday, June 9, later in the day, Jupiter is officially in the sign of Cancer by about 6 in the evening at Central Time.

So that ingress is just a week off. We're going to spend some time talking about it today.

Now, if we fast forward a year, you're going to see that by June of 2026, we're getting Jupiter into Leo. That's happening by the very end of June 2026. So it's a full year that we get this Jupiter transit in the sign of Cancer.

To me, that is always worth spending a little bit of extra time on, because when you're spending a whole year with a planet—or more, in the case of Saturn or Uranus or Neptune or Pluto—they really become guides and teachers, directors of the path of destiny for a significant period of our life.

A year goes by quickly. I've already been reflecting on Jupiter's final moments in Gemini recently, and some of you have done that along with me on the channel. And you know how quickly the time flies—and yet still how powerful the lessons can be.

And so what I want to do today is I want to talk about one of the most significant roles that Jupiter plays. And the reason that I've titled this talk "When the Goddess Directs Our Destiny" is because so much of Jupiter in the sign of Cancer has to do with the directing of destiny through the lens of the Moon and this very feminine, watery sign that can, I think, very adequately be described by a variety of different goddesses.

So I just call it "The Goddess," but the feminine energy is very specific and unique in the sign of Cancer, and Jupiter in the sign will therefore guide us through that lunar lens.

The reason that I use the word "destiny" with Jupiter is very intentional. I want to talk briefly about the teleology of Jupiter. This is something that I have talked about for a long time because of the way that Jupiter is written and spoken about by ancient astrologers in both the East and the West.

But I was really, really encouraged recently when I read a new book that Liz Greene recently released or published, called *By Jove*, and it's an exploration of Jupiter.

One of the things I love about that text—by the way, if you choose to read it, you can pick it up on Amazon—is that *By Jove: On the Meaning of Astrological Jupiter* that she published spends a long time talking about what Jupiter's significations are that go beyond words like "expansion" or just like "good luck" or something like that.

It's not uncommon in my astrological practice to see people going through Jupiter transits that are sometimes difficult. And then, you know, because of all the almost hyper-positivity that you hear surrounding Jupiter, you're a little surprised when a Jupiter transit comes by and maybe you feel that there's been an over-promising and under-delivering—or worse, you've gone through something that's been legitimately challenging, and you're left scratching your head going, "Well, I thought Jupiter was just going to give me a promotion and some money or something like that."

Jupiter is a benefic, and there's good reason to think about Jupiter as a benefic. But in this book—in case you're interested—Liz Greene spends a really good amount of time talking about why Jupiter is sometimes difficult and how we should understand Jupiter much more broadly as a planet that has many more significations than just expansion and good luck.

I want to briefly talk—and this is something that I've talked about in many places previously—but I was also really encouraged to find Liz Greene talking about it in the same way. Sometimes when you see a masterful astrologer that you consider an elder talking about something in the way that you've been led to understand it yourself through experience and through your own studies, it's kind of like, "Okay, good, I'm on the right track with this."

That's really what her book did for me, and I'm sure it might do the same for you if you've had some intuitions about Jupiter. It's just really nice to see someone so masterful laying it all out.

Anyway, one of the words that she uses to talk about Jupiter is the word "teleology." Now, I have a background in philosophy—my bachelor's degree was in philosophy—and so I'm very familiar with this word, but you may not be.

And so let's take a moment to talk about what this word means and why she associates it with Jupiter, and also why ancient astrologers, broadly speaking, associated the same idea with the word "Jupiter."

So the word "teleology" comes from Greek, and in some ways—if you go to study philosophy ever—you'll find that teleology is like a kind of, almost like a branch of philosophy.

It comes from the Greek word *telos*, which means something like "the end," "the purpose," "the goal." And then "teleology"—the *logia* part, like "astrology" is the study of—or the implication is that this is the study of, or the logic of.

The word *logos* has a pretty mystical meaning, really. It's sort of like the gnosis surrounding something—this is the truth of something, or the insights.

From ancient astrologers, it'd be that if you're studying astrology, you're studying sort of like the mind of the universe. So that word *logos* is pretty deep and mystical.

But "teleology" would mean the study of something's end, purpose, goal—or even its meaning, insofar as its meaning has a purposeful nature that will play out in time here in the material world.

So anyway, that's my brief understanding of the etymology, as far as I'm aware, and just doing some brushing up on it before I did this talk today.

But the reason that this word is associated with Jupiter is very important. Jupiter is, in a sense, exalted in the sign of Cancer because the material universe is thought to be born through this gateway of the zodiac.

One very beautiful image that comes through the sign of Cancer—which was called "the gateway of mankind"—and the sign of Cancer sat on the ascendant of the Thema Mundi, which is the birth chart of the cosmos itself.

The reason for that is that at this time of the Summer Solstice—symbolically seen from the standpoint of the Northern Hemisphere—the Sun's arc is highest in the sky, closest to the unchanging, fixed pole star, and then from that point forward, it descends down into the Earth.

So that astronomical picture is associated with the descent of the *logos*—or the archetype, or the spirit, or the seed, or the source—into materiality, where the world gives birth through the sign of Cancer to itself.

So it's an interesting picture in the sign of Cancer—of spirit descending into matter. Because of that, the Moon—who is thought to be the planet associated with the material world—and the fact that this material world is a reflection of the archetypal or the divine or the transcendental—that this world is a marriage of the transcendental with the imminent (or the transcendent and imminent, I should say).

It's a beautiful symbol that the Moon represents this material world with the cycles of change and life and birth and death and the Wheel of Fortune itself and embodiment itself—all associated with the Moon.

It's interesting to think that Jupiter is also exalted here and is a co-host of the sign. Why would that be?

Jupiter also rules the sign of Sagittarius and the sign of Pisces. It's really important to note what's happening in the solar year in these two signs.

In Sagittarius, we reach the deepest part of darkness in the solar year. And by the end of that process, the Sun, in its arc in the sky—closest down to the Earth—starts to sort of flip and turn upward.

And so Jupiter is ushering the turning point from darkness to the return of light. Similarly, in the spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the sign of Pisces ushers the solar year from the half of the year constituted by more dark than light in the 24-hour period into the light half of the year, which takes place after Pisces ends at the beginning of Aries.

So both of the Jupiter-ruled signs are midwifing light coming up out of the darkness and handing over to the light half of the year.

In this sense, Jupiter is associated with—there's an archetypal sense. You can see this in the *I Ching*, in Taoism, where there's a play of light and dark.

And one of the things that light is doing is giving order, meaning, purpose, direction to darkness—so that if we had only darkness and no light, things would be out of balance, and vice versa.

So it's not that darkness is always thought of as bad or evil—it's that darkness has a much deeper and more sophisticated role to play than just that.

But ushering the solar year from darkness into light gives us a returning, renewed sense of purpose—meaning that death, darkness, and the descent into the material world is not just chaos, is not just death, and mortality is not just suffering.

Because those are facets of darkness that come with the mortal experience of the material world. But there is something more taking place here, and the return to light is always the emblem of that meaning, purpose, and direction that life carries with it.

So not surprisingly, Jupiter is also exalted in the gateway of the cosmos itself—the gateway of mankind, the ascendant of the Thema Mundi, the sign of the Moon, the temple of material, embodied life—that also has direction and purpose within it, that has a transcendental meaning, that has a transcendental source that is coherent and meaningful and directive and purposeful.

If we didn't have that, then we would have just a kind of material soup of chaos. So the Yin needs the Yang in the sense, and the Yang needs the Yin.

It's not surprising that Jupiter was the ruler of the seed of life in sperm, whereas the Moon was the planet associated with the womb and gestation and the diversity of life and care for it—beautiful pairing in this sign.

But the reason that we have a connection to Jupiter as a planet of teleology is because Jupiter is constantly providing us with that sense of meaning, purpose, direction, clarity, coherence, and unity.

Philosophically, on an instinctual level, there's a felt sense that we have—that life is trustworthy, that it's meaningful, that it has purpose, that my life has a direction.

And when we are in quote-unquote "dark times"—times that are chaotic—we often feel that we've lost that sense of faith, that felt sense of faith, which is rarely articulated on the level of philosophical certainty or intellectual certainty about how it all works or exactly where it's all going.

But there is a very felt sense that we all have—and that when we lose, we desperately want back—"Where am I going?" is the most basic question I get in astrology readings. "Where am I going next? I can't see the path."

That sense that there is a path, and that when you're on it, you sort of know it or feel it, is very Jupiterian.

So Jupiter, as a moving planet in our lives, as a planet in our natal charts, provides us with a means by which we constantly create and recreate and deepen into our felt sense of purpose, direction, faith that life is meaningful and coherent.

As Jupiter transits, it's also always providing us with that felt sense of meaning, direction, and purpose—although it's constantly evolving and changing, just like we are.

So now that we've kind of established a connection between Jupiter and the purposefulness or meaningfulness of life—and this is, of course, one of the big reasons why it's exalted in the sign that is considered to be the place where life itself is sort of born and midwifed into creation, the sign of the Moon—now we can understand why it's going to be a year in which the Goddess—this is the Moon's temple, this is a feminine temple that is associated with manifest life, not abstract, detached, logical, or rational ideas, but embodied life—so we can now think about direction and purpose in the year to come as something the Goddess is orchestrating.

And by "Goddess," we mean the world of embodiment, the world of form, the world of relationships, of living beings, of life and death, of experience itself.

So really, a really beautiful—but very deep—Jupiter placement. I want to talk first about four different ways that Jupiter tends to deepen our understanding as it transits through a sign.

And you can play with these and work with these on your own—meditate on them, journal with them if you want to.

**Number one:** Notice. And you could do this in hindsight, looking at Jupiter in Gemini in your chart over the past year. And you could do this actively, as Jupiter's transiting through Cancer in the next year.

Jupiter is going to give us a progressive understanding of life's purpose. And by "life's purpose," I don't mean personal purpose—we're going to cover that later. I mean that we get—it's like sometimes you find yourself standing, looking across a grand landscape, like maybe you go hiking and you reach the top of a great hill, and you can see out for miles.

And you sometimes in spaces like this—and I'll call them Jupiterian moments—you get some deeper felt sense that the existence of life has purpose, has meaning. That doesn't mean you know exactly what that meaning is or where that purpose is taking us, but you feel it. You sense it.

Most wisdom traditions have told us that it's somewhat futile to try to circumscribe the mind of the universe—like you don't necessarily want to understand or try to understand exactly what the meaning of life is or what its purpose is.

But there are glimpses that we get into its purposefulness, into its directedness, into the sense that it's being guided.

And so as Jupiter goes along in any year, I think if we are working actively with the placement of Jupiter in our birth charts—and by that, I just mean keeping it in our awareness—then we stand to sort of—it's like we're holding out a little bowl, and we're going to receive some blessings that are going to be poured into that little bowl.

The blessing will be a progressive understanding of life's purpose that is felt, that comes into us in an instinctual way that lives deep within. And it often happens through just synchronicities, or through maybe something we start to understand a little bit better, or the somewhat hard-to-quantify or qualified feeling of growth—"I'm growing"—and along with it comes the sense that, "Yeah, yes, this is all part of a plan, part of a purpose."

Now, I don't think we should ever use the sense of purpose or directedness of life to fend off periods of uncertainty or doubt. It's good to get lost sometimes. It's good to lose the plot. That's a part of it somehow, I think.

But you know what it's like when you have that renewed sense of trusting that life itself has a purpose? Jupiter's always providing that through its transits.

But the reason that Jupiter's not always just positive is because—think about some of the more difficult experiences you've had in life that have helped you trust that life is purposeful, but you wouldn't necessarily describe as easy.

**Number two:** A progressive understanding of personal purpose. Now, this is a little bit more specific to the feeling that I myself have a destiny, I myself have a sacred code.

I think, for example, of one of my favorite books by James Hillman, *The Soul's Code*. In that book, he talks about the acorn theory—the idea that the acorn has the image of the oak tree within it.

So each of us has something like that. I think astrology gives us a really interesting glimpse into some of the schematics of the oak tree that each of us are here to become in some way.

I don't like to be too literal with it—"This is your blueprint." I like to think of it a little bit more as a kind of oracle that can provide meaningful images and glimpses of that teleology that's in our souls for this lifetime.

But I'm careful not to get too attached or too literal about that, because I benefit more from a felt sense that I have personal purpose than some concrete attachment to its literal details. That's just me.

Anyway, progressive understanding of personal purpose happens as Jupiter transits through our charts—and through the study of the natal position of Jupiter too.

That progressive understanding of personal purpose is here to fill us with the sense that you're learning, you're growing, you're here for certain reasons.

And again, I would urge everyone to resist the temptation to try to catalog those, or try to be on top of them or control them, or ace them, or like it's an exam or something—but more so to just notice as Jupiter goes along, things happen that confer upon me a sense of the purposefulness of my life, of the fact that I am here and that life itself is here.

So you see, there's a distinction.

**Number three:** A progressive understanding of social purpose. Now, whether you're really active politically, socially, in groups, in institutions, in industries or fields of study, or religious organizations or not—whether you're someone who is really actively involved in the news cycle and pays attention, or you're someone that has to kind of guard their serenity—whatever your orientation is to the existence of the collective unfolding—

In other words, there is usually a sense that during a Jupiter transit—even for people who only pay a little bit of attention to that more social, collective unfolding—that there is purpose behind how it's happening, behind why it's happening, that can give us faith even in dark times as we perceive it, or that can give us a sense of the meaningfulness of our participation if we're people who are very inspired to be maybe socially or politically or culturally active in a group.

So that progressive understanding is different for each person. And I think it often boils down to—sometimes introverts versus extroverts have different ways of being involved in the world, or people who are more—they have maybe a Dharma that's here to participate in the collective arena or not.

Whatever the case might be, though, watch for that progressive understanding of social purpose to unfold. And I think that gives us, at the very least, a trust that there's no mistakes here.

People make mistakes, right? And we do all sorts of stuff that is really hard to understand. But the flow and direction of life itself, historically, socially, collectively, has meaning and purpose.

This is also why Jupiter is not necessarily easy, because if there's anything that tests our faith, it's the questioning of why bad things happen to good or innocent people, for example, or why certain social or historical atrocities and imbalances and injustices and hatred and all sorts of things exist.

I'm not saying that you come up with some rosy, bury-your-head-in-the-sand explanation for these things. It's more of a felt sense that history itself has meaning and direction behind it.

And again, just like our personal lives, sometimes the emergence of that felt sense happens through difficulties. That's why Jupiter's transits are not always easy.

And in fact, sometimes Jupiter transits are predictably involved in moments where people die. The reason for that, as far as I can tell as a counseling astrologer over the years, is that those moments are sometimes some of the most profound when it comes to redirecting the purpose or story of our lives and redirecting how and where we find meaning.

There's nothing, in a sense, more renewing of our sense of faith, direction, and purpose than loss—in the processing of loss of people we love.

I'm not saying that to scare anyone. It's just the truth that Jupiter is often involved in death transits, and Liz Greene talks about that in her book that she just wrote as well.

**Number four:** Progressive understanding of purpose itself. Now, this is a little metaphysical, I guess, but one of the things that the *I Ching* teaches—that each *Ching* is a big part of my daily practice outside of astrology, and you guys know on the channel over the years sometimes I bring it in.

There's periods of time I go through where it's like, "Oh, this is the *I Ching* channel too," and then there's times where it just kind of is more for me. It's been that way for a while now. But anyway, maybe it'll come back.

But the *I Ching* is always—like Taoism itself—as we continue to observe and watch how life's purpose, how personal purpose, social, collective, historical purpose is evolving and changing, and how our understanding of personal purpose, social purpose, life's purpose continues deepening and unfolding in our lives—we come to understand the personality of something divine.

Like, all of this meaning and purpose is the expression of something personal—of something that's also impersonal, that—like, "I love, you know, it's like the way that can be named is not the way," right?

So I say this with that in mind, but it's like the Tao—you know, that life has a way, and it has a purpose, and it has a logic, and it's poetic, and it's musical, but it's also like sensible and intelligent.

It has almost like a calculus behind it, and that we develop some understanding of the intelligence of the way itself as we also observe the evolving of personal and social purpose—or just observing the purposefulness of nature in life itself.

Then all of a sudden we come to reflect and draw more closely and intimately to this way.

So Jupiter in Cancer is going to be doing that, just like Jupiter in any sign is doing that.

Now, I think there are some ways that Jupiter in Cancer will help us to achieve a sense of purpose, or to understand life, personal, social purpose, or purpose itself.

The unique ways that Jupiter in Cancer will do that will really take place through the feminine, watery sign of the Moon. Jupiter is, in its own way, always doing this weaving of purpose and direction, but in the sign of Cancer, it will be so feminine, so lunar.

So for example, something to watch for in the year ahead will be that there are some things that you—there is no way to learn abstractly. You can only learn through the most embodied experiences.

Now, let me give you an example of that from my own life—but I don't know, I'm not—I know that some of you may not relate to this, so please just extrapolate from it in a way that's useful for you.

There are certain things that I just couldn't understand about life until I became a parent. I do not—by saying that—I do not mean to say that everyone needs to be a parent. I don't believe that at all.

But just for me personally, there were certain things I couldn't understand. Now, similarly, I would say that people who make that choice to not be a parent probably couldn't understand certain things about life without that contrasting experience.

So it's relative—it's very subjective and personal. But that is the nature of Cancer—personal, subjective experience itself, embodied experiences that are the only means by which you could come to understand something.

This is because life itself is intimate and relational. It has to be understood through felt, living, connective, relational experiences in an animistic cosmos that is alive.

That's the Goddess's way. You don't get there purely through abstract reasoning. You can't just dissect and analyze things to get there—you have to live your way there.

You have to be in the valley of life. You have to experience love and loss and joy and pain. You have to step into this embodied world. You can't bypass it.

Jupiter in Cancer will deliver so many insights on the purpose of life, on our personal purpose, social purpose, on the deeper meaning of purpose itself—but it will do so through the gateway of living life, of embodied life, of felt experiences.

**Number two:** Through devotion, nurturance, and care. The things that we care for will be the means by which we progressively deepen our understanding of our life's purpose, of the purpose of life itself, of social, historical, collective purpose.

The vehicle of nurturance, devotion, care—whether it's a plant or a person, whether it's a business or it's your own body or your own psychology, or your friendships or community—what we nurture and care for will be the vehicle through which we come to feel more deeply that life is purposeful.

**Through deepening emotional intelligence.** I can't sit here and pretend to understand what emotional intelligence is. I only have a relative amount of it, right? And all of us listening are the same way.

Some of you are probably so emotionally intelligent—and yet still, I think there's always room for all of us to grow, to become more attuned to the environment.

One thing that I love about animals—and this is such a year in which the wisdom of the embodied world of nature itself can speak—is that animals are so sensitive instinctually to feelings, right?

And we have two mastiffs. And if you know anything about guardian dog breeds like mastiffs, they're so emotionally sensitive—just if I'm in a bad mood, let's say, they are disturbed.

They will come around and get into slightly protective mode, like, "Is everything safe here? Is everything okay?"

I think it's easy for a lot of us—because of how busy we are, and I don't mean to—I'm on social media as much as anyone else, and I get stuck on my phone probably like all of you do—but it's easy to dissociate.

And when we dissociate mentally or through technology or just staying busy, we miss out on all of the beautiful connection that exists in a more present and felt experience of life.

And my dogs—I noticed constantly—bring me back to that towards the end of the day when I'm shutting down for the day, and I get around them, and I notice that they're like, "Where the fuck have you been?"

Sorry, that just flew out of my mouth. "Where have you been, space cadet?" So yeah, they bring me back to my body.

So anyway, whatever the case may be, I think this is a year in which purpose, meaning, direction will unfold as we allow for ourselves to be creatures of greater emotional awareness, emotional intelligence—paying attention to subtlety, paying attention to the body.

Its wisdom is vital.

**Number four:** Through the—I love it when I just randomly drop a swear word because I wasn't even expecting it—just came out of my mouth, and then I think it's funny.

Through the feminine relating principle. So I was mentioning this a little bit earlier when I talked about embodied experience itself.

I think that one of the things that the sign of Cancer always offers us is the idea that my purpose, my meaning, my direction only has as much value as I've invested my meaning and purpose in the meaningful purpose and direction of others that I have beautiful, sweet bonds with.

Now, the classic example of that is family—but God knows, that's only probably the medium for some of us out there, especially given how much divorce there has been and how much pain there is around family. I've seen it so much over my career.

But the ideal—I guess the archetypal sense of this—is like family or marriage or close friendship. But let's get beyond that and just say those are nice images that are very Cancerian, but it's really any place in which meaningful, sensitive connection and bonds with other people promote within us the distinction and deepening of our own individual purpose.

I think we're social animals, and again, I think of the cosmos as a living being—its purpose is dependent upon the relationship of its parts with its other parts.

I think that we fulfill the purpose of the cosmos when we don't think of our own individual purpose as existing in a vacuum, but as existing in supportive, beautiful, deepening connections with other beings.

That is the feminine relating principle that Jupiter in Cancer may really amplify and augment for us now.

**Finally, through the juxtaposition between the material and the spiritual.** While I've been saying a lot about embodied experience and sort of standing for it here, I want to also mention that if we are so immersed in the material world, in relationships, in the body, that we forget that we are eternal beings—one of the dark sides of the sign of Cancer is the clutching, the holding, the attachment that gets complicated.

Co-dependence or neediness are words that are sort of stereotypically associated with Cancer, especially when Cancer is getting poked fun of in like a social media meme or something, right?

I think, though, that there's something to that—it's not that people don't say that for no reason. And so as we go, there will be a way in which the world experience, the feminine relating principle, the deepening of emotional intelligence, devotion, nurturance, care, embodied experience itself become vehicles for enhancing our sense of direction and purpose.

But along the way, we have to be sure that we're remembering—"I'm also an eternal being. I'm a spirit, soul that has probably lived lifetimes before and has more that will come along."

And so how do I move through all of these deep, embodied, attached, connected experiences that have to be that way to deliver their fruits—while also not getting lost in them, while not falling asleep in them or forgetting my divine nature?

This is why the sign of the Moon is also associated with remembrance—remembrance of each other, remembrance of the mother for the child, remembrance of the soul for its source.

That's also important to keep in mind, because Jupiter in Cancer can turn up the volume on the worldly things—family, marriage, home, moving, emotional bonds—and those things are so felt and so present in the material sense.

We just don't want to turn up the volume on those things so loud that we lose sight of that eternal—just a little bit of the remembering.

In teleology, we still have an *ology*, a *logia*, right? A *logos*. We have—this experience is meant to also give us just a slight amount of like healthy detachment while we're also deepening these very healthy, bonded, connected states—so that we, you know, we don't want to develop anxious attachment, for example.

It's a kind of a phrase in relational theory these days that we could say we want to try to avoid—well, Jupiter's in Cancer, so...

Anyway, I hope this has been a useful meditation on Jupiter and Jupiter in Cancer. We'll have more as the week goes on.

I hope you're having a good day. Stick around after I sign off to tune in for a 12-minute video on the upcoming course, *Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic*.

We have a great community at NORWAC—there were like 50-60 students that all got together, our staff got together, we got to meet in person, some people for the first time. It was fantastic.

That's a conference that takes place in the Northwest each year. Anyway, I'd love to meet new people, and hope you'll consider coming out for the program starting on June 22.

All right, take it easy, everyone. Bye.