The stage and the sitting room are one place
What grows for you is Leo-shaped, and it grows in the 5th house: making things, falling in love and playing are not separate departments here but a single appetite, and it runs at full strength. Joyless stretches close you down. What this needs is one thing being made purely because you wanted to.
There is no gap in this position between what you are like and what you enjoy, which is unusual and worth noticing. Nothing about your pleasures has to be translated for anybody, and the difficulty that follows is knowing when to stop rather than how to begin.
Made at full confidence, and quite a lot of it
Your creative output is generous and unembarrassed: you produce, you show it, and you do not agonise in the way that stops other people. That confidence is the reason anything exists at all. What it skips is the second look, so give one piece a proper revision this year and find out what your work is like when it has been argued with.
Romance conducted as an occasion
You court with scale: the plan, the gesture, the evening that took a fortnight to arrange. It is entirely sincere and it sets an expectation the ordinary weeks cannot meet. Keep the occasions and add something small and repeated, because affection that only appears in capital letters leaves the other person guessing between times.
Children get an actual playmate
With younger people you are on the floor, in the game, taking it as seriously as they are, and children respond to you the way they respond to very few adults. That is a real gift and it needs one addition. Be the one who says no occasionally, since a child who has an adult purely for fun has nobody in that role at all.
Enjoyment has never needed justifying
You take pleasure without guilt, which is rarer than it sounds and is one of the reasons people like being near you. It also means nothing here is self-limiting. Decide in advance what a good evening costs and how long it lasts, because the appetite has no internal brake and has never pretended to.
You are proud of them, loudly and in public
With your own children the praise is generous, specific and delivered where other people can hear it, and they will carry the memory of that for a lifetime. What needs watching is whether the pride is for what they did or for how it reflected. Praise one thing this month that nobody else witnessed, and say nothing about it to anybody.
You will fund your own projects
When you believe in something you make, you pay for it yourself rather than waiting for anybody to commission it, and two of those have paid you back handsomely. The others have not. Cap the self-funding at a figure decided in a flat month, since your enthusiasm has never been a reliable estimator of a budget.
You want it acknowledged where people can see
A relationship conducted privately does not register as one for you: what you want is to be somebody's obvious choice, in front of their friends, without ambiguity. That is a genuine requirement rather than vanity. Say it at the beginning, because anybody who keeps their attachments quiet is unlikely to change and the mismatch only sharpens with time.
Playing was never a phase to grow out of
The instruction to become serious has been delivered to you repeatedly and you have never fully complied, which turns out to have been the correct decision. The pleasure is where your actual output comes from. Defend the unproductive hours deliberately, since everything you have made that was any good arrived through them rather than in spite of them.
Your name has to be on the work
Anonymous contribution costs you more motivation than it saves anybody trouble, and you have quietly withdrawn from at least one project where the credit went elsewhere. That is not petulance; it is how your engine runs. Negotiate the attribution before you begin, since afterwards it cannot be arranged without appearing to complain.