March 24

Who you are

You look further down the road than anyone around you. You spot the trouble in a plan a month before it becomes a problem and you say so, usually to people who are not ready to hear it yet. Aries makes you willing to be out front. Mars makes you comfortable being exposed for as long as it takes.

Loyalty is what drives it. You are not ahead for your own sake. You are there because somebody you care about is behind you and you would rather meet the bad news first. The difficulty is that from where they stand it can look like distance, or like criticism, and they have no way of telling which.

Your gifts

• Early warning. You see the problem while there is still time to do something about it.
• Comfort with exposure. You will take the risky position so that other people do not have to.
• Loyalty in motion. Your care shows up as action already taken before anyone asked for it.

Your shadow

Being permanently ahead means you are never quite with anyone. You bring back warnings in a clipped tone, get frustrated when people fail to act on them, and start to feel like the only one paying attention. That is lonely, and it is partly self inflicted. Nobody can follow a person who is always half a mile off and never explains.

Your soul work

Your soul work is coming back and staying long enough to be understood. Report what you saw in plain words, then travel in the middle of the group for a while. Being useful at a distance is easy for you. Being close while you do it is the harder skill.

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.