November 26

Who you are

You look at obstacles sideways instead of head on. While everybody else is measuring the height of the problem, you are already walking toward the one place it gives way, and you are usually right that it exists. You have got yourself and other people through situations that had already been described to you, in some detail, as impossible.

You believe there is always a way through, and you apply that to arguments, families and careers as readily as to anything practical. It is not naive cheer. It comes from having been right often enough to trust the instinct, and it means you will happily take the longer route if it gets everybody over without somebody being broken by the effort.

Your gifts

• An instinct for the opening. You find the way through a problem while everybody else is still describing how big it is.
• Unimpressed by the grand version. You would rather get the whole group across than do it the impressive way alone.
• Patient with the long way round. You will accept an extra week to avoid something that would break the people with you.

Your shadow

The gift running loose becomes chronic avoidance. Some walls have no way around them, and you will spend years going sideways rather than admit that this one has to be met directly. In love it shows up as a talent for the exit. The moment the ground gets steep you know three ways out, and you are gone before anyone realises what was happening.

Your soul work

Go straight at one thing. Pick the situation you have been walking around for years, name it plainly, and meet it head on. You will hate every hour of it. You will also find that the ease you built your life on has cost you far more than it ever saved you.

Days you get along with

Your sign

The ninth sign fires its arrow at the horizon and follows it. Sagittarius carries the gift of faith in the distance, and the lesson of being here.

Someone else

Look up another birthday

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