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Your Creative Touch 

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. 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. 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 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. Life delivers leadership and success to you; take care to develop relaxed relationships and a healthy life style. 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. 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. 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.

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