May 2

Who you are

You are the one who remembers the appointment, refills the prescription, texts the day after the hard conversation. For you, attention is what affection looks like, so you give it in small daily amounts rather than in speeches. Most of what you do for people happens in the hour before they arrive or the hour after they leave.

You also catch things early. A change in somebody's voice, a bill left unopened, a friend who has stopped answering group messages: you notice weeks before anyone else does, and you move quietly. The difficulty is that this work has no visible middle. People see the crisis you prevented as a crisis that never existed, which means your best years can look, from outside, like nothing much happened.

Your gifts

• Steady upkeep. You do the ordinary maintenance of a household, a team or a friendship without being asked twice.
• Early detection. You spot trouble in someone weeks before they admit it to themselves.
• Comfort with the invisible. You can work for months with no applause and still do the job properly.

Your shadow

Care given without a word eventually turns into a ledger only you can read. You keep giving, nobody thanks you the way you wanted, and resentment sets in underneath the kindness where it is hardest to reach. Then it comes out sideways, in a comment about the dishes. Saying plainly what you need would cost you one uncomfortable minute and save you a year.

Your soul work

Your soul work is to look after people without keeping score, and to ask directly for what you want instead of waiting to be noticed. Care that demands recognition sours. Care that simply continues becomes the thing a whole family leans on. Practise the sentence until it stops feeling rude.

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.