August 7

Who you are

People gather where you are and you are rarely sure why. You take up room without apologising for it, which reads as confidence and is closer to build: you were made wide and cannot make yourself narrow to be polite. Large gatherings, large problems and large grief do not shrink you, so anything heavy in a friendship group eventually finds its way to your door.

You watch the edges of a room. Whoever is standing near the door, not yet inside the conversation, gets you first, and this has been true since you were a teenager. Your mood sets the temperature of wherever you are, and you learned some years ago to keep it warm deliberately rather than leaving it to whatever kind of week you have had.

Your gifts

• Scale without strain. You can hold a big occasion, a big problem or a big grief without getting smaller.
• Steady temperature. Your mood governs the room, and you keep it warm on purpose rather than by luck.
• Room for the newcomer. You go to whoever is standing outside the circle, and you do it before anybody asks.

Your shadow

Empty, you go cold fast. A quiet week reads to you as evidence that you are not needed, so you fill it with whoever is available, keeping people close for the noise rather than the company. The result is a life crowded with company and short of anybody who has ever asked you a difficult question and waited for the answer.

Your soul work

Practise being alone without deciding that it means something about you. The work here is to be large without needing to be full, so that when you do open the doors it is an offer rather than a rescue, for them and for you.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The fifth sign carries the sun itself: warmth, performance, and generous fire, with the lifelong lesson of learning to shine without needing the mirror.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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