June 2

Who you are

You are good at the first ten minutes. Someone arrives stiff and defensive, and you ask the one question that is easy to answer, and the shoulders come down. Your house is not tidy and it does not matter. People stay later than they meant to and leave having swapped numbers with somebody they came in wary of.

You translate people to each other without making a show of it. Your aunt and your flatmate have nothing in common and you find the one thing they do, and then you get out of the way. What you offer is access. Your contacts, your spare room, your time on a bad Tuesday, given before anyone has to work out how to ask.

Your gifts

• Ease with strangers. You can talk to anyone for five minutes and leave them feeling they were interesting.
• Translation. You can explain one person to another in a sentence that neither of them would find rude.
• Generosity with what you have. You give away introductions, spare rooms and afternoons without keeping a running total.

Your shadow

Being welcoming to everyone means nobody gets all of you. You are warm at the door and harder to find in the back room, and the people closest to you sometimes feel they are queueing with the rest. You also avoid the fight. Keeping the evening pleasant matters so much that a real problem can sit at your table for years, unsaid.

Your soul work

Let a few people all the way in. Your gift is making a room safe, and the room includes you, so practise saying the awkward thing to someone you love and staying in the chair afterwards. Warmth that can hold a disagreement is worth more than warmth that cannot.

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.