May 9

Who you are

You are the fixed point. In a family that argues, in a workplace that reorganises every eighteen months, you are the one whose position on things is the same in March as it was in October. Nobody applauds that. They simply build around you, make plans that assume you, and take your presence as a given, which is both a compliment and a weight.

You do this without drama. There is no announcement when you take on more, no visible strain, no long account of how tired you are. You get up, you do it, and you are there again the following week. People who have known you twenty years cannot remember you making a scene, and some of them have never once asked how you are.

Your gifts

• Constancy. Your position on things holds from one year to the next, and people plan their lives on it.
• Honest read. You judge situations by what is in front of you rather than by what you were promised.
• Endurance without theatre. You carry heavy loads for years without ever making them a performance.

Your shadow

Steady can go stale without anyone noticing, including you. You keep holding a position you formed in a different decade, and because you sound certain, everyone else takes it as fact. A confident opinion that stopped being true pulls a whole family off course, and nobody questions it, because questioning you has never once been necessary before.

Your soul work

Your work is to be the steady thing other people build on, and to keep checking that what you are steady about is still right. Hold the ground. Review the opinion. Being trusted matters less than being trustworthy, and there is no reason you cannot manage both.

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.