Human creativity falls into three principal arenas: creation (the making of things), recreation (the entertaining side of life), and procreation (the creation of the future). Everyone actively engages in all three creative processes, and we often confuse the feelings of one for another. The term "recreational sex" captures the sense of confusion. Some of us work really hard to get "good sex". Some of us feel sex serves only one purpose, that of procreation. Some of us find the deepest spiritual meaning of life in sexual union. To confuse such deeply meaningful matters with mere recreation can be a problem. In terms of career, creativity plays a big role, but typically sexual involvement in the workplace only serves to establish barriers to the free flow of ideas. To gain better understanding of the inner creative urge in its multiplicity of expression is to gain a leg up on the career issues that can lead us to money and fame without also finding inner satisfaction in the work itself.

Your creative strength lies in the ability to analyze situations and see beyond the obvious. You are able to accumulate data from sources that others may overlook, digging deep into the meat of a problem. You are the ultimate systems analyst, whatever the system may be. You can test the end product, finding pleasure in discovering its best qualities as well as its correctable faults. Others may have had the idea to produce diamonds from coal; you are the one who can see and measure the results in detail, thriving on the final process of refinement into true gems.

You may find that at some point your creative focus is modified to include a somewhat different mode of expression that has the following characteristics:

Your creative eye focuses on refinement and elegance, both in the process itself and in the result. For you means do not justify the ends if the means are messy and undignified. The ends are satisfying only when they have the stamp of quality that elegance suggests. You thrive on the creation of glamour around your work, but not if it detracts from its meaningfulness. You take the greatest pleasure in partnerships, and therefore work best in situations where you have someone with whom to share projects. You are able to balance the objective and subjective perspectives in your creative work.

Many people find that the creative urge seeks to apply itself in a particular area of life that may have very little to do with career. By the same token, the creative voice can dictate the path of vocation, if it is either strong enough or consistent with the overall vocational choices. It helps to understand what part of the creative process most pleases you, what feelings and activities you consider to be most creative.

While the approval of others is nice, it is self-approval that you ultimately need. You are able to carry off the dignity required in stressful situations. Your fearlessness can get you into tight situations, but is a valuable career asset most of the time.

It also helps to be aware of how you can use your creativity to the best advantage.

You can be quite happy working at home amid familiar surroundings. Some of your best ideas appear while you have your feet up relaxing in your own easy chair. Your creativity may seem like it came from your parents' generation - it's that solid.

Who do you most like to play with when you are being creative? You may think this an odd question where career is concerned, but it strikes at the heart of the career game. If you surround yourself with people who share your creative interests, you will fulfill your inner urge more directly and completely. Just as children work hard at their games, you can play hard at work and thus enjoy this part of your life that takes up the bulk of your waking hours.

You have great creative potential. You are able to express creatively because of your understanding of harmony and your ability to refine an idea into a beautiful result. You inspire love in others because of a warm heart and charming, magnetic personality. Clothing manufacturers, art dealers, artists, composers, cosmeticians, anyone whose work involves elegance and beauty will appeal to your creative side. Women may be more likely to get your juices flowing. You could provide services for florists, musicians, or even be a bridal consultant. The idea is that you need a sense of the artistic to pervade your work if your creativity is to develop fully. The justice system, particularly judges and juries, could be part of your creative scene. You desire a peaceful, harmonious environment, and this is true of the work place as well as home. Serenity of atmosphere helps you to do your best work. You enjoy the social milieu and strong career and personal relationships are important to you. Friendly and obliging, you may tend to scatter your energies across a broad field of acquaintances. Your actions speak of good taste. Awareness is a creative process. Your awareness allows creativity to emerge and each creative act inspires greater awareness. You are enthusiastic in all activities, but should be certain of the direction of your passions. Special projects can draw on your psychic power and can feel magically delightful. Your creative imagination takes you through the veil of reality into another world, populated with artists, movie stars, detectives and spiritual counselors. You are able to take ideas and manifest them in the material world for others to see. You enjoy being around people who can let their imaginations emerge in their work, like illustrators, writers and occult practitioners. Hospital and pharmacy employees, opticians or anyone who changes our perceptions of the world are interesting as well. You desire to connect to others and to see beyond yourself. You have a receptive nature and seek associations in your community. You seek the intellectual quality in most of your relationships and develop a logical understanding of the mystic side of life. You tend to be somewhat unrealistic in your expectations of others.

You can develop a sense of the importance of creativity to your work, and also what factors affect your creative expression, by considering how you seek creative interplay with others and with the world.

You take a practical, common sense approach to cyclical changes in your life. You can use this approach in business situations by maintaining a sense of your objectives. If you experience a lack of clarity in the midst of changes, you can balance nervousness with physical activity. Your inner sense of beauty can become a source of tension when you find yourself in excessively indulgent situations. When you are attracted to another individual, use your own physical and mental tension to attract them. Life delivers leadership and success to you; take care to develop relaxed relationships and a healthy life style. Sudden changes force you to cope, yet your mind can manage easily. It is possible to align your thinking to minimize physical upsets connected with new conditions. You are far more sensitive to your environment than most people. Without careful attention to your choices, you make emphasize weaknesses in your physical body. Increased psychic awareness helps you make the most of your possibilities. Striving for power is the strongest indicator of transitions in your life. You will experience remarkable advancement, as well as dramatic health changes, both for the better and for the worse. You have both the positive and less constructive qualities of leadership at your disposal.The typical results of your creative forays have the following characteristics:

Intensity in your emotional life can produce conflict. It can also develop strong emotional bonds with mates and children. Use your innate artistic talent and recognition of beauty to overcome a tendency to dwell on emotional conflicts. The exertion of power in love relationships can be intensely satisfying. It can also cause tensions and stress. You are creatively and procreatively fruitful. You have a vivid fantasy life which is connected to some form of psychic activity. You are seldom surprised by changes and see them as openings for further insight. You suffer from a periodic lack of energy and are susceptible to infections. You have an innate sense of timing. You are inspired to acts of devotion. You are sometimes moody and feel inferior. The richness of feelings in your life is the result of your close connection to the psychic realm. You are a dreamer and mystic. Sometimes you suffer losses because of unprofitable speculations. You have the potential for developing your psychic gifts because you can set aside your "ordinary" consciousness. While you sometimes experience confused psychic states, you can achieve spiritual enlightenment. You are a highly sensitive person and can develop your psychic gifts steadily throughout your life. You are aware of events before they occur.

Thinking and feeling are aligned for you. You have the natural ease of mental process which allows you to learn easily and to express what you have learned in turn. You may be a skilled test-taker. You are a good teacher. You generally can draw upon the power of your mental resources easily. You can develop great skill in argument, although you are sometimes too quick to speak. Personal growth is a positive source of self-confirmation for you. Where others struggle, you take small steps and reap large benefits. Your highly developed powers of persuasion place you in a position to control change in your life. You can be a successful speaker or writer. Your own eagerness can be a detriment to your health unless you support your nervous system with proper nutrition and rest.

Current shifts in your creative pattern may be indications of a refinement of your activities to suit the daemon or inner voice. Your awareness of that voice is subject to changes that can have sweeping effects on your career path.

You are intense about work right now and nervous strain can detract from your usual common sense and clarity. You are feeling particularly light-hearted at this time, able to perceive the design behind your work and life in general. Your emotional eagerness can cause you to tax your physical system at this time. Maintain awareness of all the details of meetings with other people, as the details contain the essential information at this time.

If you follow the plans you have made precisely, you can achieve success. It will take serious effort, but success is possible.

You may suddenly feel shy about discussing your ideas and desires with others, preferring to keep them to yourself for a while. Your success depends on clear communication, and you are aware of precisely what to say or write.

You fall in love with everyone and everything right now. This could even extend to new career responsibilities.

You may be wondering how creativity affects your career. Perhaps you don't feel that the work you do is very creative, or perhaps you have creative pursuits that are not part of how you earn money. Creativity is the expression of an ideal that we each find within ourselves. We each have a unique inner essence that deserves to be polished and re-fined in our individual ways. This essence can be expressed through vocation, and indeed it is a force that pushes us toward the most fulfilling career fields. Many factors combine to produce the best vocational choice. Multiple abilities may combine in a profession not usually associated with the individual qualities you possess.

In the world of vocation certain energies work to your best advantage.

The power of intellect expresses creatively through the positive, unloosened mind. First, you find the creative ability to be aware of what is hidden. Your mind allows you to experience the revelation of unconscious energies and submerged psychic structures. Creative objectivity permits you to balance your perceptions with thought. The creative force of social action will continue beyond individual lifetimes. Finally, you are able to creatively project an ideal into form through intellectual processes. A key word for your creative process is TO MAKE KNOWN. You may tend toward the following capacities where vocation is concerned: intense perceptual abilities, ability to concentrate and meditate, ability to think clearly, ability to put things in the proper perspective and ability to reason, ability to adjust. At best you are able to think without living entirely in your head and to test the water by dabbling before focusing too narrowly on one activity.

These may not be your greatest strengths, yet they work better for you in the work environment, they help you to achieve greater career success and fame, and they may even be essential for financial remuneration. For some people, the things that work where vocation is concerned are very different from what work in relationships or other areas of life.

You tend to approach career like you approach every area of your life - with zest, with lively temperament, and through the use of your will. You see ahead to the future, and want it to be here now, and you use your energy to make that happen. You like to be in charge, but you need subordinates who can complete the tasks that you assign, as you are not so interested in the details. You have the capacity to embrace a rich philosophical perspective and will extend it to your work environment whenever possible. Above all, you have the ability to inspire others.

You generally prefer to take the initiative in any situation, choosing action over other considerations. Your initial enthusiasm is often what gets the ball rolling, and you can be counted on to move forward with projects. You can be impatient. You are dependable in your work, capable of persisting through to completion with assigned tasks. You are able to recall details and accumulate the information you need for your work. You can be rather stubborn. You may have trouble adapting to conditions as they arise, learning how to manage and attend to details. You tend to make decisions a bit too quickly, without considering all the angles.

Each of us has to work within the framework of our personal traits and habits. Life is not so much about changing those habits as it is about choosing to emphasize one set of behaviors over another. Through this process character is revealed. If we changed our behaviors all the time, we would never settle into the strength of character that we need. Generally, when we desire to change ourselves, we aim to change how we understand and work with our inner being, how we can come to accept that being. This section of the report considers how you operate in the world, and thus how you tend to function in the work environment.

The Sun is indicative of your primary psychological type. Psychology and astrology both suggest that each individual has a basic style in interacting with the world. The Sun sign indicates the more conscious portion of your style. Individuals do not necessarily conform to this in their outer expression, but it nevertheless is consistent with the underlying approach to life. With the Sun in Leo, you are primarily the Intuitive type.

Intuitive types listen to their unconscious sources of information, eschewing normal perception. In fact, they are often largely unaware of what is around them in the material world. These people are the inventors, the artists, the forward thinkers because they can see the possibilities of an idea, often before the means of developing it are apparent. Therefore they pursue what they know the world is not yet prepared for. Intuitives jump to conclusions, yes, but not necessarily without the intermediate steps. They either go through those steps at light speed by sizing up an underlying principle or simply recognize an inevitable match of an idea's potential with their own desires. You fit into the educational system rather well, as many high school and college courses make use of the deductive skills intuitives share with the thinking type. You may respond well to the timed testing that is prevalent today. You can master the complexities of mathematics because you can grasp the results without having to ground your learning in some physical way. Intuitives contribute through their inventiveness. You are generally willing to sacrifice the pleasure of the moment in the hope of greater future achievement. You are also restless and crave inspiration. Because you thrive in situations where getting to the answer is important, you are good at problem-solving and tasks that require ingenuity. Careers in the creative arts, religious inspiration and scientific discovery all suit the intuitive type. You can become an inspired leader or promoter. For you the game is more important than winning, the chase more interesting than the end result.

The Moon indicates the less conscious component of your interactive style. It shows what skills and talents can be brought to bear when your usual approach is not effective, and as such it indicates your own internal support system. With the Moon in Aries, your secondary function is the Intuitive type.

The Sun and Moon work together in your chart in a functioning partnership. The more aware you become of the styles you have, the more you can use them effectively. Your conscious individuality and less conscious interactive style work very well together, and this can be an advantage or disadvantage in the work place. You claim to always know your own mind, and others will seldom disagree. On the outer conscious level, as well as the inner private plane, you may seek the independent path in material and financial matters. You are a strong individual who believes in your own abilities. You may be somewhat intolerant of others. You have the drive necessary for success as well. There may be an underlying ruthlessness to your nature - it both prevents you from forgetting the wrongs others may have done to you and provides the force you need to successfully defeat your enemies. You have the capacity for the heights of ecstasy and the depths of despair. In spite of a certain volatility, you have strong ethical and moral principles. Thus you can be the consummate bandit, stealing from others "by the book," staying just inside the law. Or you can be a preacher, lawyer or judge, dispensing fairness according to your own principles. You benefit by using your endless supply of energy in physical activities. You may move far from your birthplace in pursuit of your career.

If you are aware of how other people see you, you have a distinct career advantage. Such awareness provides a tremendous opportunity to present yourself in the best light possible. You may have a rather different persona in the work place than you have anywhere else because different traits are expected by your co-workers. You therefore can choose to display those personality characteristics that suit your work situation the best.

Your natural direction where individuality is concerned is to proceed on a spontaneous basis and to seek immediate intuitive solutions to problems.

Your naturally impulsive nature may have led you to rash action more than once, usually not a helpful tendency where career is concerned. At the same time you have intuitive abilities and creative talents that guide your impulses, so that what at first seems ill-advised often turns out well. You like change.

Your personality naturally tends to exhibit adaptability and mobility, along with good understanding of events around you. At the same time you like to see change and can implement it yourself. Your naturally good manners come across well in the work environment. Others respond well to you because you draw on your wide range of interests and knowledge of human nature.

The qualities you most easily recognize in yourself are the capacity to hold back and observe, coupled with strong planning skills. Timing is everything for you, and you strive to not wait too long to act. You understand the dynamics of leadership and cooperation and seek strong team effort whenever possible. You usually see failures as learning situations, at least where your co-workers are concerned. Proper behavior is important to you, yet you can laugh at your occasional missteps. You tend to think you know everything and may resist input from others - the weight of your personal experience is NOT everything. You know the difference between reaction and response lies in knowing yourself on a deep spiritual level. The best response involves service guided by higher consciousness.

Sometimes it seems that other people understand you better than you do. As you become more self-aware through experience and self-investigation, you see the connections between feelings, situations and events more clearly. You thus are better able to make creative choices in response to life's slings and arrows, instead of reacting from a less conscious drive.

As you travel life's path, the balance of your attention changes. These shifts allow you to experience the world in different ways for a period of time, and thereby to develop new skills. The periodic shifts provide what you need to gain perspective if you are to take advantage of learning opportunities as they are presented. These shifts may call for career changes as well.

At this time you have the potential to grow through developing a greater versatility. This is a good time to study, either to upgrade your skills or to develop new ones. You will also find yourself in more social situations and can refine your interpersonal skills during this period.

For the next few months, your thought processes will be stimulated. You are able to learn to apply logic to whatever situation you encounter, and you take a somewhat businesslike attitude to everything in your life.

During the current period you have more a caring, sympathetic attitude toward others. You may tend to be reserved, even shy, and certainly sensitive to the feelings of others and yourself. You can make decisions in the clinches. There is a tendency to depend on others - you may need to stand on your own merits more in the work place.

The qualities you stand to gain at this time include the capacity to apply personal effort in your work and the ambitious pursuit of the goals you set for yourself. You may learn that your optimism is a personal strength. You also recognize rash impulses and the occasional inability to let go of an idea that has lost its usefulness. You learn how you respond in moments of crisis.

Many factors add up to the sum total of your presence in the world. Some character traits are quite stable, changing very little throughout your life. They are the "mind set" with which you approach all your activities and as such have a strong impact on your career. This section of your report considers how these persistent qualities affect you in your career endeavors.

Psychologists use the terms introversion and extraversion to describe two general ways of approaching the world. These tendencies are rather obvious to others, yet you may not recognize them in yourself.

In psychological terms, as an introvert you judge the world in terms of what events mean for you and you are not as responsive to others as the extravert. Life's activities tend to be measured on an internal, personally unique basis. In introversion one's thoughts refer more to the self, to what is within the individual. You seek to understand what life offers before you jump into it. If there is a real world for you, it is the inner world of ideas and subjective understanding. You tend to insulate yourself against the outer world in favor of the inner life.

Another pair of differences fall on a continuum between very self-directed and self-motivated to more responsive or reactive to other people and outside forces.

You experience a lessening of personal control and an increased tendency to react to outer influences - to respond to the needs and desires of other people. There is the potential to dissolve conditions which are rigid within the personality and to interact with others in a more beneficial manner. You tend to merge your feelings and ideas with other people, caring less for personal ownership and more for cooperative effort. You often make choices that are more beneficial to the people around you than to yourself, recognizing that you gain more satisfaction from helping others. You make a strong facilitator because you are naturally aware of how other people feel and thus are able to provide the motivation and circumstances for them to be successful. You measure your own success in terms of the worldly results.

These two tendencies combine to produce a personal approach to the world.

You tend to respond to others, at home, in personal relationships and in the work environment. Your fundamental beliefs were learned largely through family in childhood, and they may change only after significant thought. Your attitudes toward all objects of personal love, such as mate, child, pet, or friend revolve around responding to them. You usually choose to respond to the needs of others in the work environment, and your attitude toward peers and subordinates is focused as much on their needs as on the work demands.

A third consideration is how your mind functions. How you assimilate information and then put that information to use in the outer world can have a huge impact on your career success. It influences not only the career choice itself, but also the area you choose within the career.

You tend to be ahead of yourself all the time. You seldom take the time to stop and smell the roses, as you are onto the next project already. You will need to cultivate the usual, the normal, the mundane to be successful in the work environment. You may struggle to learn meditation as sitting still is actually rather painful. Even if you slow down to a pace you consider deadly, you will still be going faster than most of the people around you. The cell phone and computers were made for you to keep track of the details and keep up to date as you rush through life. If you are honest about it, you can learn to enjoy life at other people's pace, at least part of the time.

Thus far this report has revealed traits of your personality which you may be more or less familiar with. Most people identify with one or more parts of their personality. You may not see yourself exactly as described here, and you certainly will want to consider the qualities that are entering your awareness now, as they are the fuel for future personality developments, and possibly for career advancement as well.