May 5

Who you are

You have good timing in your body rather than in your head. You can tell when a conversation has reached the point where it should end, when a job is finished, when a friendship has hit the year it will be remembered for. Other people check the calendar. You just know, and you are right often enough that arguing with you is a losing habit.

When good things arrive all at once you do not panic and you do not waste them. A sudden run of money, help, opportunity or company gets handled calmly and set aside for the lean stretch you assume is coming. You will stay up late to finish something while it is still worth finishing. Abundance makes most people careless. It makes you careful.

Your gifts

• Timing you can feel. You know when something is ready without needing anyone to confirm it.
• Good in a windfall. You handle sudden abundance without losing your head or your savings.
• Willing vigil. You will sit up with a task, or a person, for as long as it actually takes.

Your shadow

Left alone, saving turns into hoarding. You keep the letters, the grudges, the clothes from a body you no longer have, and a whole room of your life fills up with things kept in case. Nothing gets used. You are so busy protecting the good years that you forget to spend one. What you store and never open was thrown away slowly.

Your soul work

Your work is to catch what is good while it is at its best and make it available to other people later. Keep the shelf, but keep the door open. What you save is meant to be shared, eaten and finished, not admired through glass for thirty years.

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.