April 16

Who you are

You get things going. The trip everyone talked about for two years happens the week you take charge of it. You introduce people who should know each other, put a date in the calendar before anyone can object, and enjoy the moment when a vague idea turns into an actual plan with a time and a place attached.

You also stir things deliberately. A conversation that has gone comfortable and false will get a question from you that opens it up, and you are not sorry afterwards. Pretending makes you impatient in a way you cannot hide for long. Most of the friendships and the arguments in your life exist because you decided to say the thing that started them.

Your gifts

• Turns talk into plans. You add a date and a place, and suddenly the idea is real.
• Brings people together. Half the useful relationships around you began with an introduction from you.
• Opens the real conversation. You ask the question the group has been avoiding all evening.

Your shadow

Stirring is entertaining until somebody gets hurt. You start a fire in a conversation, watch it burn, and leave before the clearing up, telling yourself the truth needed airing. There is restlessness under it: peace makes you uneasy, so you disturb it. Some of the trouble in your life is trouble you created because the alternative was boredom.

Your soul work

Your soul work is staying for the consequences. Start what you start and be there for the difficult second half, and learn to sit in a calm evening without needing to test it. Not every silence is something waiting for you to break it.

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.