The all-knowing Aquarian Age internet will tell you that ‘creativity is a complex and mysterious concept, and therefore it is difficult to define because of the ambiguity about the concept and no accepted definition for it in general.’
In Human Motivation (published in 1994) Robert E. Franken had a go:
‘Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others.’ And: ‘In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives.’
And in 2025 Psychology Today explains that ‘creativity encompasses the ability to discover new and original ideas, connections, and solutions to problems.’ And there’s a lot of talk about the creative personality, creative traits and the different kinds of creativity.
Hermetic astrology teaches that creativity requires creative energy and you can only use what you’ve got and that the ordinary conditions of everyday life, including domestic relations, make some call upon your creative energy. But to create beyond the normal needs of life – a song, beautiful painting, piece of furniture or book – requires intensity and volume to the creative energy.
It teaches that the energy released by your drive for self-preservation (Saturn), or your drive for significance (Sun), is sufficient to cause intense trains of thought to pass through your unconscious mind and that the thought processes set in motion can create worthwhile new combinations. But the real-life experience of writers, composers, inventors and artists is that their creative output is dependent upon the creative energy of the drive for race preservation aka Mars and sex.
It teaches that creative work requires a reserve of sex energy which is diverted into the creation of vivid mental images. Thoughts and feelings are sublimated and diverted into a higher plane of expression and this requires a high electrical frequency and potential.
Hermetic astrology teaches that for sex energy to accomplish worthwhile mental work it must be controlled and directed constructively into some specific creative activity; and important creative activity requires creative imagination and the driving power of sex energy.
It teaches that the gonad gland secretions generate electrical energies within the brain and nervous system that are suitable to do creative work.
Venus and Mars: The creative impulse
Venus is the planet of love, affection and beauty. Mars is the planet of energy, and passion. Venus gives appreciation of beauty and good taste where appearances are concerned, but does not create anything. Mars supplies the creative energy.
To be able to create beauty there must be ample Venus and Mars energy. Venus gives beauty and harmony to the expression of creative energy.
Venus-Mars aspects indicate creative potential. They’re the best indicators that strong electrical energies of the affectional (Venus) system serge over the nerves.
They give the urge and power for artistic creation through active gonad glands which supply a surplus of creative energy.
Even when the Venus-Mars aspect is discordant their creative tendencies can be directed into artistic work. Venus conjunction Mars can indicate superior creative talent.
Mercury or Moon aspecting Venus or Mars gives the ability to express the creative abilities in some form of art: talking, drawing, literature or writing.
Neptune provides imagination
Creative imagination requires Mars and Neptune energy. Mars supplies the creative energy and Neptune provides the imagination.
Neptune’s imagination is active in creative work.
It not only produces visual imagery in response to heightened emotional states it also selects certain more obvious things for its composition and explores the inner-plane using ESP. It leaves no stone unturned in acquiring the proper material for the creative work attempted and to bring it together in a pleasing effect.
Uranus provides originality
Mental creativity requires that the unconscious mind have a vast field of information from which to choose.
Objective consciousness only has at its disposal those images and ideas which, through the process of memory, can impart vibratory energy to the physical brain cells. This is a laborious process consuming large amounts of electrical energy.
Mental fertility requires the breaking up of the mind’s mental contents. They must be severed from the fixity of their original associations.
Uranus enable dissociation. It breaks up mental fixity and enables new mental combinations to be formed. It provides originality.
Creative work
Creative activity of all kinds including procreation requires a high electrical potential. Mental creation requires a great electrical potential and radiations of high frequency.
For procreation and other creative activities the gonads aka sex glands or reproductive glands (testes and ovaries) are evolved.
The testes are ruled by Mars and the ovaries by Venus and their secretion, testosterone and estrone, is essential for creative work of any kind. It’s specially adapted to generating within the brain and nervous system electrical energies of the proper potential and frequency to do creative work.
Creatives must have it abundantly. The creative work they do requires a glandular make up that generates electrical energies of tremendous power, radiating wavelengths of the type readily used by the affectional (Venus) system.
For the creative energy of Mars to flow persistently into the affectional system (rather than into sporadic passion and cerebral and physical activity) the glandular reactions produced by Venus must be sufficient to direct the creative energy.
Whenever initiative and construction or destruction are required the glandular make up calls for active gonads and ample adrenaline.
Assess your creative self
Your soul has been engaged in acquiring significance through producing or creating something new; and your procreative instinct has for its object the creation of something outside of yourself.
Sex is the creative principle in nature and all forms of creativity harness sex energy to a constructive purpose. Sex energy can express through any type of creative work: creative artistic expression or creative intellectual effort.
Your sexual energy contains a creative spark.
Assess Mars in your birth chart. If it’s prominent you have creative potential.
Assess Venus. If its prominent you have artistic appreciation. If it aspects Mars you have artistic creative potential.
Mars and Venus prominent indicate active gonad glands and the secretion of hormones which give a creative urge beyond that required by the ordinary needs of human life.
If Moon or Mercury aspect Mars or Venus you have mental or intellectual creative potential.
Assess Neptune. It its prominent you have imagination. If it aspects Mars you have a potential for creative imagination.
Assess Uranus. If it’s prominent you can disassociate and create original mental images aka new ideas.
Levels of creativity vary greatly and only you know if a creative spark exists within your soul. Whatever, your sexual energy contains the secret of your creative ability and its transmutation is the key to your creative power.
Your creative (Venus-Mars) thought-cell activity produces a corresponding creative electrochemical reaction.
You have a potential to grow and develop through creativity. Each new creative experience contributes to your evolving sense of creativity.
Proactive spiritual development is an act of creation requiring aggressive effort, initiative and courage.
According to Pablo Picasso ‘every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction’ (Mars).
Note: Energy as influencing the mind and thought was dumped by the cybernetic school of thought by 1970. Mass times velocity squared is a physical quantity known as kinetic energy. Progressed aspects provide energy to mental factors in your not-conscious soul-mind.
This article contains words written by Elbert Benjamine and Lenora Conwell.
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