June 7

Who you are

You are the one people trust with the thing that matters. The news that has to be broken gently, the message passed to someone who is not speaking to the sender, the envelope that must arrive by Friday. You do not lose things and you do not forget. It is a small reputation and it took years, and you would not trade it.

You know a great deal about other people's lives and you keep almost none of it in circulation. Two friends fall out and you carry sentences between them for a month without adding a single word of your own. Details stick to you: the anniversary nobody else remembers, the name of the doctor, the exact phrasing that will land badly and the one that will not.

Your gifts

• Reliability under volume. You can carry twenty small obligations at once and drop none of them.
• Confidences kept. What is told to you stays told to you, without you making a virtue of it.
• Attention to detail. You notice the small thing that changes the meaning of the whole message.

Your shadow

You carry other people's words for so long that you stop sending your own. Nobody knows what you think about anything, because your habit is to deliver rather than to say. Resentment collects quietly in there. You have done a hundred favours nobody logged, and one day it comes out sideways at a person who only asked for a lift.

Your soul work

Deliver your own message once in a while. Say the thing you actually believe, out loud, in your own name, to someone who will remember you said it. The trustworthiness is real and it is your gift. It becomes a hiding place the moment you have no position of your own.

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.