March 21

Who you are

You begin. Where most people are still consulting, you have made the call and taken the first step, and by the time anyone objects there is something real to object to. Aries is the sign of the first move and Mars is the appetite behind it. Standing at the edge of a decision has always felt worse to you than getting it wrong.

Speed is your natural setting under pressure. A crisis arrives and something in you gets clearer rather than foggier, which is why people who are panicking come looking for you. You spend yourself freely on this. Nothing about you was designed to be conserved, and you have never learned pacing, only going flat out and recovering afterwards.

Your gifts

• Starting power. You get things moving that would otherwise sit untouched for months.
• Speed under pressure. Your thinking sharpens at exactly the point the situation gets worse.
• Willingness to spend yourself. You give a thing everything you have without negotiating terms first.

Your shadow

Starting is easy for you, so you use it to avoid the harder question of whether the thing was worth starting. New projects, new plans, new arguments, and a trail of work left at forty percent behind you. The people who came in with you get tired of building on ground you have already left. Enthusiasm without follow through reads as unreliability.

Your soul work

Aim before you move. Choose what deserves that much of you, then stay long enough to see whether it caught. You are never going to lack courage. What you need is the patience to find out how the thing you began actually turned out in the end.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The zodiac begins with fire. Aries carries the gift of the start, the courage to go first, and the lifelong lesson of learning to finish.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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