May 31

Who you are

Someone who knew you at twenty would not recognise your opinions, your job or your friends, and might not recognise your accent. You have rebuilt yourself more than once, properly, not as a phase. Each time you kept a few things and dropped the rest, and each time you were genuinely the new version rather than performing it. This unsettles people who need others to stay put.

The old versions are still in there. You can talk to almost anyone because some part of you has lived roughly where they are living now, and that gives you a range of sympathy people find surprising in someone so hard to define. You update your mind quickly when the facts change, which most people say they admire and few actually do.

Your gifts

• Real reinvention. You have actually changed more than once, which almost nobody manages twice.
• Layered sympathy. You have lived enough different lives to understand people very unlike you now.
• Fast updating. When the evidence changes, you change, without needing to save face first.

Your shadow

Reinvention is also a clean way to leave people behind. Every new version comes with a set of friends who do not make it, letters unanswered, a family told less and less. You call it growth, and often it is growth. It is also, sometimes, walking out of a room the moment somebody knows you well enough to be disappointed in you.

Your soul work

Take somebody with you into the next version. Read the older ones honestly before you write over them again. Your work is not to arrive at a final self but to admit that all of them were yours, which is the only way the next one improves on the last.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The third sign carries the gift of curiosity and the burden of its own quickness. Gemini is the zodiac learning to speak, and learning to land.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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