April 15

Who you are

You would rather begin badly than wait for certainty. While a group is still discussing the best approach, you have tried the first version, discovered two problems nobody predicted, and come back with real information. Your instinct is that no amount of planning teaches you what one week of doing teaches you, and you are right more often than the planners like.

You are honest about the cost. You have started things that should never have been started, and burnt whole weeks proving an idea was wrong. You count that as fair payment. Mars gives you a low tolerance for the gap between deciding and doing, and you have organised your entire working life around keeping that gap as short as possible.

Your gifts

• Fast to begin. You convert an argument into evidence by simply trying it and reporting back.
• Comfortable being wrong. Early failure is information to you rather than humiliation.
• Opens the way. Once you have gone first, the people who needed permission follow easily.

Your shadow

Starting is the part you like, so unfinished things accumulate behind you and other people quietly clean them up. You mistake speed for courage and read caution as cowardice, which has cost you good advisers. When a project reaches the slow middle you get restless and begin something new, then tell yourself the loss of interest was the project's fault.

Your soul work

Your soul work is staying past the exciting part. Choose one thing and see it through the dull middle without a fresh idea rescuing you, and listen properly to the careful person before you move rather than after it has gone wrong.

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.