Goddess Aphrodite, The Sexy and Creative Force

A woman most closely identified with Aphrodite often is an extraverted woman with a lust for life and a fiery element in her personality. She likes men and draws them to her with her attractiveness and interest in them. Her attentiveness is seductive; she makes a man feel that he is special and sexy.

… Aphrodite is a tremendous force for change. Through her flow attraction, union. fertilization, incubation and birth of new life. When this process happens on a purely physical plane between a man and woman, a baby is conceived. And the sequence is the same in all other creative processes as well: attraction, union, fertilization, incubation, a new creation. The creative product can be as abstract as an inspired union of two ideas that eventually gives birth to a new theory.

Creative work comes out of an intense and passionate involvement – almost as if with a lover, as one (the artist) interacts with the “other” to bring something new into being. … Sometimes both the creative and the romantic aspects of Aphrodite are present in the same woman. She then engages in intense relationships, moving from one to another as well as being engrossed in her creative work. Such a woman follows whatever and whoever fascinates her and may lead an unconventional life, as did the dancer Isadora Duncan and the writer George Sand.

Goddesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of Women -- Jean Shinoda Bolen