March 22

Who you are

Rooms speed up around you. You say what you are going to do and then mean it, and the effect on everyone else is immediate, which is why you keep ending up in charge of things you never applied for. Mars gives you the drive. What makes it contagious is that you visibly believe the thing in front of you is possible.

You are honest about effort, too. You do not ask anyone for work you would not do yourself, and people can tell the difference. That is what separates you from someone who merely shouts. The hardest lesson of your life has been that not everybody recovers at your speed, and that pushing a tired person is not the same as encouraging them.

Your gifts

• Tempo. You set a rhythm and other people discover they can work at it.
• Honest effort. You never ask for more than you are visibly giving yourself.
• Contagious nerve. Your confidence makes other people braver than they were that morning.

Your shadow

Momentum can become a way of not feeling anything. You keep the pace high partly because slowing down would mean noticing what is tired or unresolved, in the work and in you. So the projects multiply and the finishing gets handed off. People burn out around you and you read it as a lack of commitment rather than a pace you set.

Your soul work

Your work is finishing some of what you begin. Stay past the point where the excitement drops and the plain labour starts, and take one thing all the way to the end yourself. Then look around and check who is still standing, and honestly how they are doing.

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.