March 1

Who you are

You work out how someone is doing in the first minute, before they have said anything true. A friend says the day was fine and you already know which part of it was not. Pisces gives you that receiver, and Neptune keeps it switched on whether or not you want the information. People call this sensitivity. It is closer to attention that never gets a break.

The talking is where you go quiet. You will sit with a friend through the worst night of their year and never mention that your own week fell apart. Water is your element and it moves in one direction with you, inward and down. So people know you as steady and easy to be around, and almost nobody can describe what you actually want.

Your gifts

• Accurate read. You can tell tiredness from sorrow in someone's voice, and you are usually right.
• Staying power in hard talks. You are still there long after other people have started checking the time.
• Easy trust. Strangers tell you real things quickly, because you never look like you are collecting them.

Your shadow

Left alone, all that noticing becomes a way of avoiding yourself. You know the state of everyone in your life and could not honestly report your own. Silence starts as tact and hardens into a habit, and then the people closest to you are guessing. They love someone they have to interpret, and eventually some of them stop trying.

Your soul work

Your soul work is saying the plain thing out loud. Tell one person what your week was actually like, without softening it and without waiting to be asked twice. Being known will cost you the same effort you spend knowing everyone else, and it is the only trade worth making.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The twelfth sign swims in both directions at once: boundless feeling, porous edges. Pisces carries the ocean, and the lesson of the riverbank.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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