April 11

Who you are

You have a gift for putting words to what a room is feeling. Somebody has to say it to the manager, the council, the family, and everyone turns to look at you. You accept, usually without being asked twice, and you represent them accurately, which is why they keep asking. The talent is less about confidence than about listening properly beforehand.

Standing out front changes how people treat you. You get the credit and the blame for positions that were never only yours, and you have learned not to mind that much. What you do mind is being misquoted, or being sent to speak for a group that changes its mind quietly once the door has closed behind you.

Your gifts

• Clarity under attention. You stay articulate in situations where most people lose the thread.
• Faithful representation. You argue for what the group actually meant rather than what you would prefer.
• Willing to be the face. You take the exposure that others need but do not want.

Your shadow

Speaking for everyone can become a way of never saying what you personally think. You hide inside the group position, and when somebody asks what you want, the answer comes out unexpectedly thin. There is vanity in it too. You have taken the microphone once or twice when another person should have held it, and told yourself it was efficiency.

Your soul work

Your soul work is finding your own position and stating it as yourself. Say one thing this year that represents nobody but you, and hand the room to the person whose story it actually is instead of translating them again.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The zodiac begins with fire. Aries carries the gift of the start, the courage to go first, and the lifelong lesson of learning to finish.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

Check a friend's day, or your partner's, and send it to them.