Chiron in Gemini

In meetings you have the answer before anyone else. You say it a beat too late, or too quietly, and someone louder says the same thing a minute later to general applause.

Chiron stood in Gemini when you were born. Gemini is talk, learning, brothers and sisters and the quick traffic of a day; Chiron, wherever it stands, is a lifelong soft spot that turns into a way of helping. In Gemini the soft spot is your voice. It goes back a long way: a child talked over at dinner, a struggle with reading, questions somebody called silly.

Second-guessing

You rehearse conversations in the shower and replay them for days afterwards. You apologise before you speak. You worry that you sound stupid, or that you explained too much, or not enough. The irony is that your mind is one of the quickest in the room.

A translator

You are wonderful at helping others say what they mean. You hear the real question under the clumsy one. You can explain something hard to anyone frightened of it, and they leave feeling clever rather than slow. Teachers and editors live on this gift, and so does every patient older sibling.

Heard

Your voice gets steadier every time you use it for someone else. One day you notice you have been talking for ten minutes and nobody has interrupted, because they wanted to hear the end.