April 28

Who you are

You work in visible increments. Notes kept, decisions recorded, the reason for a change written down where the next person will actually find it. It is slow and unglamorous and you have never once regretted it, because you have inherited enough undocumented messes over the years to know exactly what carelessness ends up costing the people who arrive afterwards.

You are thinking about a stranger. The colleague who takes over in five years, the family member sorting through your paperwork, the person who will need to know why a decision was made. Very little of this gets appreciated in your lifetime. You keep doing it anyway, which says something plain about the kind of person you actually are.

Your gifts

• Leaves a trail. Anyone following your work can see exactly what you did and why you did it.
• Consistent increments. You make steady visible progress rather than promising a finish nobody can check.
• Thinks of the next person. You do work that only benefits somebody you will never meet.

Your shadow

Marking every step can be a defence against blame. Part of the record keeping exists so that nobody can ever pin anything on you, and you know which part. You also mistake thoroughness for progress, spending a week documenting a decision that took an hour, and get quietly superior about people who move faster than you.

Your soul work

Your soul work is trusting people without a paper trail. Let one arrangement rest on somebody's word, take a risk you cannot document, and notice how much of your carefulness was care and how much of it was armour all along.

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.