June 13

Who you are

You are sociable and you are solitary, and neither is a performance. There is a version of you that runs a table of twelve, and a version that goes three days without answering a message, and your friends tend to have met only one. It is not moodiness. You genuinely contain two settings and you have never found a way to blend them.

You are unusually good at endings. Leaving a job, closing a friendship, finishing a project: you do it cleanly, with the handover written and nothing left burning behind you. You think about how a thing can be undone before you agree to start it, which sounds cold and is actually a kindness to everyone who comes after.

Your gifts

• Clean endings. You can leave a job or a relationship without setting fire to it on the way out.
• Two working selves. You can be the loud one and the private one, and both are useful.
• Small things finished. You close the last five per cent that everyone else leaves open.

Your shadow

The exit is always drafted, and people can feel it. Someone gets close and senses that you have already worked out how you would leave, and they never quite relax with you. The two selves cause trouble too. You keep parts of your life in separate rooms and let nobody walk between them, then feel unknown by everybody, which you arranged.

Your soul work

Let one person meet both of you. Not the summary, the whole thing, including the version that goes quiet for a week. Keep your talent for good endings and use it where it helps most, in the rooms where people are frightened of finishing something and stay years too long.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The third sign carries the gift of curiosity and the burden of its own quickness. Gemini is the zodiac learning to speak, and learning to land.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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