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Hi, it's Dayna, and I'm here with your divination
for the full moon in sidereal Taurus. The 2025

Sidereal Astrology Guide says, Embodying Protection
from Emotional Manipulation.

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So I've been thinking a lot about this full
moon and I've been thinking a lot about Taurus.

And I want to approach talking about this full
moon with a little bit of balance because embodying

protection from emotional manipulation, it's
a lot of heaviness there. It's a lot of, it's

a lot going on in that theme for this full moon.
And I want to ease us into this by talking

about tourists. And I want to start with the
productive, constructive aspects of Taurus.

The gift of Taurus is self-approval. You can
think for yourself about how Taurus has manifested

in your life by reflecting on, for example,
January 2023. That is when Mars stationed

direct after a very, very, long retrograde.
In Taurus. You can think about spring 2024

through spring 2025. That was when Jupiter was
in Taurus. Self-approval as a gift of Taurus

means you can like yourself and be pleased with
yourself even when other people don't like

you and are not pleased with you or your behavior.
That's the gift of Taurus. That self-approval

means you can feel differently about yourself
than other people feel about you. That may

seem very logical, but actually earlier today,
I go down these random rabbit holes, looking

at charts and reading people's Wikipedias and
looking at news stories, just trying to connect

the dots between placements in a person's birth
chart and the placements, or rather the experiences

that they've had in life. And today I was looking
at Oprah Winfrey's birth chart. She is Sagittarius

rising and has Jupiter in Taurus. And she was
quoted as saying that she wanted people to

like her so badly that she was willing to do
anything for their approval. She craved people's

approval. And she outright said it was because
she didn't feel very good about herself. She

didn't like herself. And this was like peak
Taurus to me, that the value of external approval

is high. We're not just talking about someone
talking nice to you when we're talking about

approval. We're not just talking about someone
being sweet or kind to you. We're talking about

someone being willing to give you a job because
they don't perceive you as a threat and they

perceive you as worthy of employment. I'm talking
about being able to walk through the store

without a salesperson following you around,
assuming that you are going to steal. When

I'm talking about the gift of self-approval
for sidereal tourists, I'm talking about being

accepted. and being good enough to belong. And
that belong could be, want to be accepted

and approved of and treated like I belong to
the gender group that I identify with. And

this is where Taurus comes in. It's all about
appearance. That in order to receive external

and social approval, in order to receive acceptance,
we have to put on the costume and play the

part. Reminds me of that guy who was arrested
for fraud because he was pretending to be a

physician. And his photo is like a meme now
because he had on the white coat. And he was

just scamming folks, pretending to be a physician.
But that's how it works. Someone in a physician's

coat with a clipboard approaches you and asks
you questions that you would expect to hear

from a doctor and you think he's a doctor. Obviously
there's harm in that situation, but the important

thing to take away from this is that the gift
of Taurus is self-approval and it is the capacity

to feel differently about yourself than other
people feel. It is to radically accept yourself.

The ideal of Taurus is to be good enough to
belong. To be good enough to belong means that

I'm accepted by a group that I want to belong
with. Belonging is so powerful that humans

will do things to avoid rejection that are irrational,
illogical, and often deadly. Let's take masking,

for example. When the COVID-19 pandemic began
in 2020, we also began a series of eclipses

in Scorpio and Taurus, the same signs that are
occupied at this month's full moon. in sidereal

torus. We also had a Venus retrograde in sidereal
torus. This brings me to some of the more challenging

aspects of Taurus, when people have that sign
occupied in their birth chart, and when we

are experiencing transits through Taurus. And
that is that, and I think this is something

that is maybe unique to Western culture, capitalism,
white supremacy, and patriarchy. that. Our

physical survival is often pitted against our
desire for acceptance and our need for acceptance.

many people.

felt like masking ostracized and alienated them.
People were willing to expose themselves

to COVID.

Over masking. And I always have a lot of empathy
for people who made that choice. Because alienation

and rejection and feeling ostracized and left
out, it physically hurts. It physically hurts

to feel like you don't belong. Rejection physically
hurts. And so I hold a lot of empathy for

people who took their masks off when Biden said
COVID was over, even though it wasn't. because

I understand that when we're talking about
approval and belonging, it's not intellectual,

it's emotional, it's in our nervous system,
it's in our bodies. such that this is how I

often define Taurus, like when I'm in a reading
with clients, I'll say, like Taurus and Venus

really is like, for many people, the irresistible
urge to laugh when everybody else is laughing.

Taurus is also the irresistible urge to cry
when other people around you are sad or crying.

It is the way that our nervous systems and
bodies are constantly influenced, affected,

and mirroring each other. So. If we're talking
about masking, it feels dangerous to take your

mask off, but it feels more dangerous to be
the only one masking. It feels more dangerous

to be left out. And this is where embodying
protection from emotional manipulation comes

in. Manipulation, I realize, is a very charged
word, and it makes people feel a certain

way and brings up certain scenarios. Let's
keep manipulation, but also add another word

that may be more accessible for you. Let's say
embodying protection from emotional influence.

Emotional self abandonment means to deny how
you're feeling in order to join in with an

emotional experience other people are having
or another person is having. I'm gonna repeat

that because that was kind of heavy. Emotional
self-abandonment means to deny and leave

behind. to not express your natural, spontaneous,
emotional thing, your reaction, your feeling.

because everybody else feels another way and
it feels too lonely to be in your body and

to be in your feelings by yourself. So it's
much easier or maybe it feels safer to join

the other person that you're in relationship
with or to join the group that you are in proximity

to and express and perform what they're feeling.
Emotional self-abandonment looks like feeling

emotionally hurt or upset, but everyone else
is happy and celebrating. And it's too lonely

to be in your emotional hurt and upset by yourself.
And so you leave that behind. Or you feel disrespected.

You feel like somebody was talking to you out
of pocket. Your body is having a reaction.

but instead of staying in your emotions and
responding to those feelings in a way that

is natural, i.e. discontinuing contact, taking
some space, minding your business, licking

your wounds, doing some self-care. Instead of
actually being with your feelings and tending

to your feelings, you leave those feelings behind
and you join your friend, your partner, your

parent, the adult, your community in whatever
feeling they're having, which is definitely

not you feeling respected or disrespected. It's
definitely not you feeling hurt. Embodying

protection from emotional influence or emotional
manipulation is really about being with yourself

emotionally and staying with yourself emotionally,
even when no one is with you there. It's really,

really, really hard. People, please, this is
your problem. This is the thing. The fear of

abandonment that comes with maintaining emotional
focus on yourself keeps you from holding on

to yourself. One of the things that I notice
a lot with folks who have tourist placements

is they feel an incredible sense of responsibility
for how the people in proximity to them are

feeling. Another great example of this is Will
Smith. Will Smith is tourist rising. He has,

I think, Venus and Jupiter in Libra. And he's
a comedian. And if you listen to any of...

his interviews or read his em book memoir, autobiography,
whatever it is, very strongly suggest that

you listen to the audible uh performance of
his book because it's more like a one-man show.

It's really, really, really good. Anyways,
Will Smith will tell you from his own mouth

how responsible he has felt historically for
how people around him are feeling. textbook

emotional self abandonment, textbook enmeshment
and codependence. Like, I'm not okay till everybody

else is okay. And if everybody else is not okay,
it's because I haven't made them okay. And

so one of the things that tourists often struggles
with in their relationships is letting people

have their feelings. Letting people be upset,
letting people grieve, letting people hurt,

letting people be uncomfortable. and not rescuing
them and trying to fix them. That can make

for a really uncomfortable relationship dynamic
for people who have Taurus. Because Taurus

gets really, really uncomfortable when people
aren't okay. Embodying protection from emotional

manipulation is really the way that you
can short circuit anxiety. If I could give

you some homework and I could give you some
um actionable items to focus on under this

full moon. It would be. to pay attention to
your feelings until it gets uncomfortable.

It would be to focus your emotional attention
on yourself until you're feeling like it might

make other people uncomfortable.

In a collective sense. Embodying protection
from emotional manipulation is to understand

that groups form and they cohere or stick to
each other. They stick together by having a

shared sense of who and what a threat is.
particularly in capitalism, white supremacy,

and patriarchy. Groups tend to form around a
shared experience of how they're harmed by

capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy.
It's natural for that to happen.

When I'm scared of the police and you're scared
of the police because you've been harmed or

witnessed harm and I've been harmed or witnessed
harm from the police, it's only natural for

us to stick to one another because it gives
us a sense of sanity. This experience I'm having

in my body, this threat detection response,
oh, you're having it too? we're more likely

to be safe if we bring our nervous systems together
and we come together socially in community

or relationship. Because I know that if I slip
up, you know what the threat is, so you know

what to look for. Capitalists, the power structure
of whiteness and the power structure of patriarchy

do everything in their power to prevent this
type of cohesion and coherence around a shared

threat. This is why unions do not have the power
that they had in the 20th century. Because

unions, in their purest form, cohere around
a shared threat, which is the capitalist. And

in their coherence and formation of a group,
they harness the power to resist and protect

themselves from the capitalist. And so the capitalist
use all of their resources, including money

and capital, including media, buying it all
up to prevent you from creating community around

the fact that capitalist are a threat to you
and your coworkers and other people who work.

Protecting yourself from emotional manipulation
means to protect yourself from the onslaught

of media that tries to convince you that capitalists
like Beyonce and Elon Musk and so on and so

forth, Jay-Z, that they are your friends, they're
not a threat to you. They are buying up media

to manipulate you emotionally into not perceiving
a threat where there actually is one. Black

capitalism was a strategic project of Cohen-Telpro
that defamed the Black Panther Party and the

radical Black liberation tradition that arose
after the murders of Martin Luther King Jr.

and Malcolm X. after the police brutality became
unbearable. Black capitalism is a strategy.

It was a strategy of Cohen-Telpro because now
rather than black people co-hearing around

shared threats like police, the state, uh capitalists,
Once black people get into another class, now

they're the merchant class, now they're the
entrepreneur class, now they are the middle

class. Now the threat is no longer the state,
it's no longer the police because they feel

like they can buy themselves to safety. Now
the threat is poor black people. And so middle

class and the entrepreneurial class and the
whole idea of black capitalism, is not to liberate

black people, but for individuals to feel like
they have some power to distance themselves

from the real problem, which is poor black people.
Protecting yourself, embodying protection from

emotional manipulation is to remove the scales
from your eyes that are deceiving you about

the true nature of the threats to your survival.
the ultimate emotional manipulation. of capitalist,

of whiteness as a power structure and patriarchy
as a power structure, of imperialism as a

system and order, is for you not to see death
where it actually is coming for you from. So

to self-approval is more than just, oh, I like
myself, I'm not a people pleaser anymore. People

pleasing upholds the state apparatus of violence.
It is to say. that I recognize where death

is coming from. I recognize who the death dealers
are. I recognize who wants me dead. and I can

look around and find a sense of belonging and
community with those who see like I see and

who feel like I feel. The challenge with emotional
self abandonment is that it strips you of your

power of being an agent of emotional influence.
There are hierarchies of capitalist power.

There are hierarchies of racial power. There
are hierarchies of gender power. But all of

these are upheld by hierarchies of emotional
power. Who has the power to influence how

you feel? Who has the power to influence whether
you feel safe? or whether you feel in danger.

The hierarchy of patriarchy is an emotional
hierarchy of dominance. that is imposed by

fear on men first. To protect yourself by embodying
protection from emotional manipulation means

that you need to see where the real threat is
coming from and to understand how emotional

manipulation is the bedrock of every system
of dominance that we're all trying to survive.

To hold onto yourself emotionally means that
when they say boycott from November 25th to

December 5th, you boycott because you don't
let yourself be talked out of and manipulated

out of the rage that you're living paycheck
to paycheck. That you just spent a whole year

barely being able to afford groceries because
they keep raising the price. To embody protection

from emotional manipulations, don't let those
percentages and those swag bags and all of

that other nonsense make you release the rage
and the discontent that you've been holding

onto because you know it is unjust and you know
that the capitalists are violent towards you.

I want you to be able to see how emotional manipulation
is the primary weapon used to defang you. of

the very spontaneous emotional uprising in yourself
that will lead to sudden change if you cohere

in community around it. I've talked about this
before, that nominating Kamala Harris for vice

president during the 2020 election was the most
violent act of emotional manipulation that

we had witnessed in decades, that we had experienced
in decades. because it was absolutely effective

in defanging the resistance movement that arose
around the murder of George Floyd. Don't nobody

even say his name anymore.

It fell off my lips so quickly and got replaced
with Kamala Harris because she was positioned

as our savior. This ties into, and I'm gonna
pull some cards after this, but this ties into

what I'm always talking about, that... Identity
is a belief system that is weaponized against

you. White Reconstruction by Dylan Rodriguez,
Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide.

He talks about white multiculturalism and this
way that the policy doesn't change. There is

no atonement or reparation for harm. There is
no restoration of right relation with the land.

There is no uh Repentant. Instead, you get a
black person for vice president, or you get

a black person as president of a corporation.
And because you're so easy to emotionally manipulate,

you will spend your money on a corporation that's
otherwise exploiting the resources in your

neighborhood and underpaying your community
members. You'll support them because they have

a black CEO. You've been emotionally manipulated.
Absolutely. When you decide that you're going

to support a business, a corporation or a brand
merely because they put somebody up in front

of you that has the gender or the race or the
hairstyle that you like, you're being emotionally

manipulated and I really need for you to wake
up.

with some tarot to offer some insight and guidance
on how to navigate this really, really intense

full moon. This is not one of those cute ones.
And I know y'all gonna get on the internet

and it's gonna be some woo-woo girls telling
you to manifest this and manifest that. And

if they're not manifesting protection from
emotional manipulation, then they are sending

you on a send-off mission. I'm just being really
honest. We are under serious psychological

and emotional warfare. at this time where the
writing is on the wall. If this was in the

biblical times, Nebuchadnezzar would be calling
Daniel to interpret his dreams because I'm

most certain that visions of destruction and
collapse of the capitalist system and imperial

power are haunting folks who have power that
they don't want to concede and wealth that

they're hoarding and don't want to uh deal
with fairly. The writing is very clearly on

the wall that the people have had enough. The
writing is on the wall very clearly that this

AI bubble is about to burst. The writing is
on the wall very clearly that we cannot out

capitalism climate disaster. And so when folks
are asking me what to do and how to deal and

what's the lesson, yo, protect yourself from
emotional manipulation. Let's see what these

cards have to say about that. we've got the
Two of Wands. This card is often an uncomfortable

card. And of course, this card on the bottom
is giving us our context and reference point

for this reading and for this message. But
the Two of Wands can be really uncomfortable

because it's often highlighting an imbalance
in a power dynamic where for the sake of maintaining

the connection, you want to feel like you're
equals.

And what's really coming to mind for me is the
relationship that we have with politicians

and celebrities. We are manipulated into these
parasocial relationships where we perceive

them as an equal. And even more so where we
perceive them to have more power or power over

us. But the tool of Wines is to actually, no,
that's not actually how that works. We have

the power. You have the power.

So the two of wands for me is often this card.
It's very much like, girl, get up. Why do you

see yourself as the same as someone that you
actually have power over? Why are you conceding

emotional territory and abandoning yourself
emotionally to come into emotional accordance

with someone who doesn't even perceive threats
the same as you?

We've got the magician. And we've got the nine
of swords. The magician is a card that speaks

to us about our capacity to deal with a medium
of some sorts with skill and adeptness. It's

to be able to say the thing in the way you need
to say it to have the impact that it needs

to have. It's being able to handle and use and
manage something in a way to get the results

that you want. It's an adeptness and an adwahtness
and adroitness. How do you say that in English?

Adroit? I think that's how you say it. That
is like to be able to handle and maneuver

well.

There's something that I wrote in the 2025 guide.
Let me see if I can find it that feels very

relevant to this. might have been in October.
Feeling the power our emotions have to affect

and influence others keeps us from bringing
about the fundamental changes we long for.

When we lack the material resources, the institutional
power, or the guns, tanks, and bombs to enforce

our will, we are left with our feelings. Feelings
are not the weaker weapon. The evidence of

this truth is made apparent in how our emotions
are used to make us do things that we otherwise

would not do. There is no reason for you to
continue to support corporations and capitalists

who literally would suck you dry, poison you,
leave you dead, and burn your house down. But

somehow you keep doing it. Manufactured fear
keeps us conforming to systems we know are

unjust, immoral, and unethical. but what does
it look like to decide how you feel and what

you feel for yourself? We are still in this
season where water is dominating the sky.

Water is the primary tool or element where signs
are occupied. And this is requiring of us

to build our skill in navigating emotional territory.
Many of us have skills and privilege, to navigate

the material world. We have skills and privilege
to navigate the mental world. We're good with

words and we know how to read and search the
internet. Right? We have social skills to navigate

the social hierarchies in this society. But
very few of us have the skills to navigate

emotional terrain, particularly our own emotional
terrain. because very few of us have experienced

the type of emotional connection and intimacy
that would allow us to stay in our bodies long

enough to know what we feel. At every turn,
choosing ourselves emotionally is pitted against

getting our needs met. In every facet of life,
it started in childhood. You had to smile and

give that relative a hug that you knew was creepy.
That's when the emotional abandonment was programmed

into you. You were being mistreated by a family
member or an adult in your community, and they

told you to not make a big deal about it, or
they ignored it. That's where the emotional

abandonment begins. It began right there. So
of course you would have more skills navigating

other people's emotional terrain and the emotional
terrain of the group rather than your own.

These cards are saying the power that you are
seeking in this moment is in building the skill

and capacity to navigate your own emotional
terrain. And I'm not talking about no navel

gazing, you should feel good all the time, self-care,
woo woo woo nonsense. I'm talking about actually

being able to feel what is a logical survival-based
response to capitalism, white supremacy, and

patriarchy. What is the logical emotional response
to someone making groceries expensive and unaffordable

on purpose. What is the logical emotion? See,
cause here's the problem. You've been emotionally

manipulated to perceive emotions as wrong
and bad and illogical. You've conceded the

terrain of your body. and decided to feel about
yourself and your body and your emotions the

way that other people feel. We've quote, all
decided that emotions are illogical. We've

quote, all decided that to be emotional is
weak and inferior. And it is in that state

that you are primed for the most violent emotional
manipulation. You are primed to see your own

logical response to oppression and hardship
as illogical, when somebody brings you the

truth. You tell them they being too deep. It
is that deep. I'm trying not to die. This nine

of swords is speaking to me about anxiety. and
how anxiety is treated like an illness. And

I just want to offer a reframe. Take your Lexapro
real quick. Let me be, take your Wellbutrin.

I'm not trying to talk you out of taking your
medicine because do what you have to do. However,

comma, understand you're taking Lexapro and
Wellbutrin so that you can sell your labor.

So you cannot feel emotionally alienated by
the weight of your grief and depression. You

are taking that so you won't be left out. Because
you know if you stay in that anxiety too long,

everyone is going to forget about you and act
like you're the problem. They're going to take

your job from you. They're going to put you
on probation. They're going to say you're too

heavy and hard to be around. There will be no
care for you when you go into the dark place

of confronting your grief and the depression
that comes from decades. of having your emotional

reality disregarded.

These are the contradictions that we have to
deal with. It's a both and type of situation.

I know this sounds crazy and I would never say
this of my own accord, because I wouldn't think

of it. That's how I know this is divination
because this nine of swords is really speaking

to me about the power that is inherent to anxiety.
Anxiety is your nervous system and your psyche's

attempt to bring order to your life by... influencing
emotionally the people around you. But the

problem is that our ways of thinking about
being emotionally unwell are solely pathological.

They're solely pathologized as an individual
shortcoming, rather than being seen as a symptom

of a communal and relational ill. This is not
to say that you have to believe every thought.

This is not to say that you have to believe
every feeling, but it is to say that you're

suffering from the lack of relational curiosity
around your own experience. And because you've

suffered from that, you don't know how to be
curious about yourself emotionally. Understand

that whether it's shopping, whether it's television,
whether it's Wellbutrin, whether it's alcohol,

weed, sex, gambling, you see how hard they
pushing that right now? All of these things

are numbing agents, they're pacifiers. And just
like a baby, a pacifier serves a functional

purpose.

It disarms the baby of their cry, hopefully
long enough for the parent to use that time

to finish what they're doing and figure out
what the real problem is and address it. But

the problem is even with babies, we use pacifiers
as a substitute for attention and connection.

Even with babies, we use pacifiers as a substitute
for emotional curiosity, intimacy, and connection.

Because the parents who are giving the pacifier
don't even have access to the full range of

human emotions. So they surely could not mirror
a model and be present for their child as they

are coming into emotional awareness of themselves.
Understand the function of the pacifiers in

your life as an adult. What are the pacifiers
you're using because you don't have access

to the full range of human emotions? And as
a matter of fact, the prospect of accessing

the full range of human emotion brings up shame
in you. You ready to abandon yourself already?

Oh, I don't do anger. I don't cry. I don't get
upset. I don't let things bother you. No,

because you're drinking alcohol instead or shopping
or scrolling or dissociating or gaming. Yeah,

of course you don't do those things. They're
not a badge of honor. It's leaving you primed.

for emotional manipulation by the nefarious,
violent, and oppressive forces of capitalism,

white supremacy, and patriarchy. And if you
really want to understand why revolution begins

in the body, you need to realize that your emotions
give you the upper hand to influence yourself

into community. People think community, the
pathway to community, is to leave your emotions

and your trauma and your hard experiences behind.
is to act like you ain't been through nothing

or to focus so hard on what you've been through
that it becomes an individual way of bonding

rather than looking at the systemic source of
your trauma as a shared threat that requires

a shared response to overtake and get rid of.
There is deep possibility for community building

in this moment. Think back to the George Floyd
rebellion. The threat was crystal clear.

But because we have not gotten to the root,
we were disarmed of the very tools and weapons.

that we had to protect ourselves and bring about
change. There was a full moon lunar eclipse

in Scorpio.

as the astrological trigger point of the George
Floyd rebellion. That means that the sun was

in Taurus and the moon was in Scorpio. Now the
sun is in Scorpio and the moon is in Taurus.

This is not an eclipse, but it's still having
the planet traverse the same terrain that it

did back in 2020 when George Floyd was murdered
and we took to the streets. Every single time

we come through transits that are traveling
that same portion of the zodiac is triggering

the same story, the same possibility. And the
possibility in this moment is embodying protection

of emotional manipulation. Why are you so easy
to be talked out of your feelings, to be given

ads out of your, that make you abandon yourself
emotionally?

somebody sell you something, you gotta have
it. Cause you're addicted, we all are. These

systems thrive on addiction. They don't function
without addiction. Getting sober and rightly

discerning the threats to our individual and
collective survival require you to be in your

body. require you to create emotionally safe
spaces where you can tell the truth about what's

happening to you and see the pattern of what
the shared system and structure is that's

causing your harm and oppression. Thank you
for tuning in. This has been episode 14 of

the Divination for Liberation podcast. I will
see you in a couple weeks at the New Moon in

Sagittarius. When we get to the New Moon in
Sagittarius, it's going to be a totally different

sky. I want you to watch next weekend, December
5th, 6th, and 7th. Watch the shift. Feel the

shift. Watch the new cycle change. Next weekend,
December 5th, 6th, and 7th, watch the new cycle

change. You'll see it. In the meantime, we are,
by God's grace, in the lowest wastewater

of COVID this time of year than at any other
point during the pandemic. So there is less

COVID in the wastewater right now than there
was this time in 2020. And I talked about this

on a live on Instagram. I'll link it in the
description. where I just gave some of my predictions

and forecasts for 2020. And I talked about how
we are, I think, nearing the, quote, end

of the COVID-19 pandemic, where 2026 is, for
me, the last time we'll likely see a major

surge. This is not to say that COVID is gone
forever because there are still windows um

in, like, 2029. after that where I can see
it coming back in some meaningful way. But

what we do have to worry about right now and
in 2026 and 2027 is bird flu and a bird flu

pandemic. I will not go over all of that again.
Again, I'll link the description. Excuse me,

I will link the live where I talked about this
in the description. Also at some time in January,

I will be doing a 2026 forecast. If you know,
you know, if you don't, you will find out.

Still, wear your mask indoors. It's a practice
I'm never going to give up. I don't care what

the wastewater says, and I think that's what
you should do too. Although I think this is

a time where those who need to make doctor's
appointments, dentist appointments, and catch

up with friends and family, this is a relatively
safe time to do it. That being said... I still

have my eye on the transition from December
to January for some type of surge, though I

don't necessarily think it'll be huge. We've
made it through November without cases rebounding,

which I did not expect. But I do still expect
something to be occurring um between December

and January. In the meantime, in between time,
y'all take care of yourself and I will talk

to you soon. Bye.