April 26

Who you are

You are hard to move. Once you have thought something through you will defend it against a whole room, calmly, for as long as it takes, and you never confuse volume with being right. This makes you valuable in a group that would otherwise drift toward whatever the most confident person happened to say last.

You take opposition personally in one respect only: you remember it. Not as a grudge exactly, more as a record of who argues honestly and who argues to win. The people who have fought with you fairly are the ones you trust most, and several of your closest friendships began with a disagreement that neither side ever conceded.

Your gifts

• Stands firm. Pressure and popularity do not move a position you actually reasoned your way into.
• Fights fair. You attack the argument rather than the person, even when you are losing.
• Respects a real opponent. Somebody who beats you honestly gains your trust rather than your resentment.

Your shadow

Being immovable is only a virtue when you are right. You have defended a position for a year past the evidence, because backing down in public felt worse than being wrong in private. Small disagreements get treated as tests of character, and people close to you have learned to avoid whole subjects rather than spend an evening in court.

Your soul work

Your soul work is changing your mind out loud. Concede one argument you could easily have kept going, thank the person who corrected you, and learn the real difference between a principle and a position you happen to have stated already.

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.