May 3

Who you are

You have an even temperature. Whether someone brings you good news or a disaster, they get roughly the same face, the same tone, the same willingness to sit down and go through it. That is why the nervous people in your life come to you first. You do not flare, and you do not rush anybody through a stage they are still standing in.

Repetition does not bore you the way it bores other people. You will explain the same thing four times in four different ways, and the fourth time is as patient as the first. Taurus gives you the stamina; Venus gives you the wish to see potential become real rather than admired. You would rather watch someone get competent than be told you are inspiring.

Your gifts

• Even temper. People get the same steady version of you on their worst day as on their best.
• Stamina for repetition. You can teach the same lesson a fourth time without a trace of impatience.
• Belief with evidence. You back people because you have watched them improve, not because you want to be encouraging.

Your shadow

You keep going after the work is finished. The person you were developing is ready, and you are still coaching them, still adding one more piece of advice, still holding a relationship in the shape it had two years ago. It reads as devotion and lands as doubt. At some point continued help is a way of saying you do not think they can manage alone.

Your soul work

Your work is to draw out what is sitting unused in the people near you, and then to stop. Learn to recognise the day someone no longer needs you and to be glad about it out loud. Knowing when to step back is the harder half of the gift.

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.