December 7

Who you are

You give things away. The contact, the shortcut, the name of the person who can actually help, the thing it took you four years to learn, handed over in a ten minute phone call to someone who asked once. It does not occur to you to hold it back. Information feels like something that belongs in motion.

You also have unusually wide interests, which is why the help you give is often the unlikely kind. You know a bit about tax, a bit about grief, a lot about one strange subject nobody expected. People come to you when the problem does not fit anywhere obvious, and you almost always know somebody or something.

Your gifts

• Right thing, right moment. You remember what someone said they needed and turn up with it weeks later.
• No hoarding. You teach people the thing that makes them need you less.
• Range. Your interests are wide enough that you can help with problems outside anyone's job description.

Your shadow

Given no limit, giving becomes the only way you know how to be in a relationship. You arrive with something useful because arriving empty handed feels unsafe, and you quietly keep score of what you have handed out while insisting you do not. When you finally need something you cannot ask. You wait to be noticed, and then feel unseen.

Your soul work

Learning to receive is the work. Ask one person for something specific this month and let them do it badly without stepping in to fix it. Generosity that never turns around becomes a wall with a friendly face on it. Being helped is not a debt. It is how people get close to you.

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.