Pleasure is shared or it barely registers
Abundance arrives through your 5th house wearing Libra: enjoyment happens with somebody rather than alone, and the same evening spent by yourself does almost nothing for you. Solitary entertainment leaves you flat. What this needs is one pleasure you have learned to take on your own.
Romance is unusually productive here. Being in love makes you better at your work, more decisive and generally more alive, which is a real mechanism and a slightly precarious one to build a life on.
Courtship as a genuine art
You are extremely good at the beginning of things: the attention, the pacing, the sense of being chosen carefully. Very few people do it as well and it is entirely sincere. What it can obscure is whether you want this particular person, since the pleasure of doing it well is available regardless of who is in front of you.
Made with somebody else in the room
Your creative work improves in collaboration: the second opinion, the person to react against, the shared project. Working entirely alone you circle and revise without ever finishing. Left entirely alone the work gets refined rather than finished, indefinitely. Find a collaborator rather than waiting to become more disciplined, since discipline has been tried and the collaborator has not.
Taste decides what is worth doing
Whether something is well made matters to you more than whether it is impressive, and you will abandon a project that has become inelegant however promising it was. That is a coherent standard and it can stop good work. Finish one thing that is slightly wrong, since a completed imperfect piece teaches you more than an abandoned elegant one.
With children, the negotiator
You reason with younger people, explain the fairness of things and take their objections seriously, which produces children who argue well and expect to be consulted. That is a genuine gift. Say no once without justifying it, since an adult who always explains leaves a child unsure whether anything is ever actually settled.
Falling in love is where you are most yourself
The early stretch of a relationship brings out your best qualities: attentive, generous, genuinely interested. That version is real rather than performed. What follows requires something different from you, so ask what you are like in the third year, and build the answer deliberately rather than assuming the beginning will simply continue.
Beauty is a reason, not a decoration
A great deal of what you have chosen was chosen because it was well made, well proportioned or simply lovely, and you have spent years apologising for that as though it were unserious. It is a legitimate organising principle. Say it plainly to yourself, because a life arranged around this works and a life pretending to be arranged around something else does not.
You need a partner in the work
Your professional output rises sharply when there is one other person involved: the co-author, the business partner, the person who tells you which of the two options to take. Alone you produce less and finish later. Prioritise finding that person over finding the right project, since the project has never been the constraint.
You are excellent company and rarely off duty
People enjoy your company enormously and you are aware of it while it is happening, which means the pleasant evening is also being managed by you. That management is invisible and constant. Spend one evening a month with somebody in front of whom you can be dull, since it is the only rest available in this department.
You want them to get on with each other
With your own children the priority is that everybody is fair to everybody, and you invest heavily in the relationships between them rather than only in your own with each. That is a real contribution to a household. Let one of their disputes resolve itself, since children also learn fairness by having to negotiate it without an adjudicator.