April 7

Who you are

You start early, and not because anyone asked you to. The first hours belong to you: quiet, uninterrupted, honest. By the time other people arrive you have already made your decisions, which is why you can seem impatient in a morning meeting about something you settled at six. You have never really understood people who need the day to warm them up first.

You have a strange relationship with endings. You are excellent at beginnings and tired by evening, and social plans that start at nine feel like a tax. Friends know to catch you early. The people who love you have learned that your best attention comes before lunch, and that whatever you say after ten at night should not be held against you.

Your gifts

• Momentum from the first hour. You use the part of the day most people waste recovering from sleep.
• Decisive early. You would rather choose at dawn and adjust later than deliberate until dusk.
• Uninterrupted focus. Alone with a hard task and no audience, you do your best work of the year.

Your shadow

You treat your own rhythm as a moral standard and quietly judge people who do not share it. Slow starters get read as unserious, evening people as undisciplined, and you say so more often than you realise. There is also the running away: filling the early hours to avoid the conversation waiting for you at the end of the day.

Your soul work

Your soul work is staying present past noon. Give one person your late attention, tired and unimpressive, rather than only the polished version that exists before nine. Let a day end without a result and notice that you are still worth something to the people in 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.