April 21

Who you are

You do not do games. What you charge is what you charge, what you promised in January is what you deliver in June, and if there is bad news in the arrangement you say it before signing rather than after. People sometimes read this as naive. Twenty years in, the ones who dealt with you honestly are still dealing with you.

Fairness is close to a physical sense for you, and imbalance nags until it has been corrected. You will chase somebody down the street to return the extra change. You will also refuse to let a favour sit unbalanced, which occasionally makes you difficult to be generous towards, since you insist on squaring everything within the week it happened.

Your gifts

• Straight terms. Everyone knows exactly what they are agreeing to before they agree to it.
• Keeps promises across years. Time does not soften what you said you would do.
• Sound instinct for fairness. You notice an unbalanced arrangement before it turns into a grievance.

Your shadow

Your standard is not negotiable, which makes you severe. Somebody who breaks their word once is filed permanently, no appeal, and you can hold that judgement for a decade without ever telling them why the warmth left. Squaring every account also keeps people at a distance, since real closeness involves owing and being owed with nothing written down.

Your soul work

Your soul work is letting a debt stay open. Accept help you cannot immediately repay, give somebody a second chance and mean it, and understand that a life spent making sure nobody has an advantage over you is a life with very few people close in it.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The second sign turns the spark into something that lasts. Taurus carries the gift of steadiness, the love of the senses, and the lesson of letting go.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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