May 10

Who you are

In every group you have been part of, you ended up as the one doing the part that makes everyone else's part possible. The rota, the accounts, the follow up email, the lift home. It suits you. There is genuine pleasure for you in a thing running properly, and you would rather be essential than be mentioned.

The repetition is not a burden. You can do the same task on a Tuesday for nine years and find it satisfying, which most people cannot. What you give others is permission to take risks: they can try the ambitious thing because they know the boring part is covered. Very few of them understand that this is what you are giving them.

Your gifts

• Reliable underneath. The unglamorous work that everything else depends on gets done, on time, by you.
• Pleasure in repetition. You find real satisfaction in a routine that other people would find deadening.
• Quiet permission. Your steadiness is what lets the people around you take chances.

Your shadow

You have never asked for the thing you want, and you have been resentful about not getting it for years. Rather than say so, you go quieter, work harder and wait for someone to finally notice. Nobody does. Generosity that runs on the hope of being repaid is not generosity, it is a bill you keep in a drawer and never send.

Your soul work

Learn to say what you want out loud, at normal volume, in the same voice you use for everything else. Your soul work is support that stays clean: doing the underneath work because you chose it, not because you were too frightened to ask for the other job.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The second sign turns the spark into something that lasts. Taurus carries the gift of steadiness, the love of the senses, and the lesson of letting go.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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