March 26

Who you are

You do your best work as part of something. Not because you lack ambition, but because the exchange is where you come alive: the moment you pass the thing on, or take it up, and the whole effort depends on somebody else being where they said they would be. Aries gives you the drive, and you point it outward at the group.

You are also the person people want at the end. When it is going badly and someone has to carry the last stretch, you take it without being asked and without complaint. Credit you share automatically, sometimes at your own cost. Mars in you is competitive, but what you want to win is the thing the group is doing.

Your gifts

• Trust at speed. You rely on other people without needing to check their work first.
• Anchoring. You take the hardest part when the effort is already in trouble.
• Shared credit. You name the people who helped, automatically, in front of everyone.

Your shadow

Belonging can become the whole of your identity. You take your sense of worth from the group's opinion, so you stay in teams that treat you badly and go along with decisions you privately disagree with, because being outside feels worse than being wrong. Ask what you want on your own, with nobody depending on the answer, and you will struggle.

Your soul work

Your soul work is finding out who you are between commitments. Do one thing this year that serves no team at all and see whether you still want it. Loyalty is only a gift when it comes from someone who had the option of leaving and chose not to.

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.