December 20

Who you are

You are quick where other people are careful. New city, new job, new group of strangers, and you have read the situation and committed to a direction while everyone else is still getting their bearings. Your instincts are unusually good, and the reason is that you have used them constantly since you were young, in places where hesitating cost you.

You are happiest slightly exposed. A margin of risk makes you feel awake, and a life with no edge to it puts you to sleep within a year. This is why your history has more sharp turns in it than most people's, and why the safest period of your life is usually the one you remember as the worst.

Your gifts

• Fast reading. You take in a new situation quickly and act before the window closes.
• Trust in instinct. You decide on partial information and are right more often than the odds suggest.
• Alive when exposed. Uncertainty energises you where it flattens most people.

Your shadow

Given no counterweight, the need for edge starts choosing your life for you. You blow up steady arrangements because steadiness feels like decline, mistake adrenaline for meaning, and leave good people in the category of things that got boring. Your instincts are excellent about danger and poor about ordinary happiness, which does not announce itself and never looks like an opportunity.

Your soul work

Your work is to stay somewhere calm long enough to find out whether it is actually dull. Give the quiet arrangement a year before you rule on it. Your nerve is not in question and never has been. What you have not tested is whether you can be still without treating it as a loss.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The ninth sign fires its arrow at the horizon and follows it. Sagittarius carries the gift of faith in the distance, and the lesson of being here.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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