Your standing is made of accuracy
Because Jupiter runs Virgo through your 10th house, your public position rests on demonstrable competence: the work is right, the record holds, and people who have checked come back. Roles that reward presentation over substance grind you down. What this needs is a field where quality is actually visible.
Advancement here is slow, real and difficult to reverse. You are rarely the fastest riser in any cohort and you are almost never the one who falls, and by the second half of a career that arithmetic has generally settled in your favour.
Uncomfortable with self-promotion
Describing your own achievements feels to you like inaccuracy, because the honest version includes all the qualifications and nobody wants those. So you understate, and somebody less able describes the same work better. Write the plain factual version once, with figures, since a record stated accurately is not boasting and you are permitted to read it out.
The expert rather than the figurehead
Organisations use you as the authority on the subject and give the leadership to somebody more comfortable in front of a room. That suits you in most respects and costs you in one. Decide whether you actually want the second role, because if you do it will not be offered and will have to be asked for.
Your name is attached to a standard
Within your field people know what work from you looks like, and that consistency is the entire asset. It also means one poor piece would be noticed disproportionately. People describe work as being done properly and mean it as a comparison with you. Protect it by declining what you cannot do properly, since here your capacity to say no is what keeps the reputation intact.
You improve whatever you are put in charge of
Handed a department, a process or a project, you leave it measurably better than you found it, and the improvement is documented and durable. That is rarer than it sounds. Make sure the before and after are both written down, because an improvement nobody measured is indistinguishable from a thing that was always fine.
The standard you hold is expensive to maintain
Keeping the work at your level costs hours nobody has budgeted for, and those hours come out of sleep, meals and everything unscheduled. The quality is visible and the cost is not. Decide which pieces of work get the full standard, because applying it uniformly is what has been quietly consuming the rest of your life.
Ask for the scope, not the seniority
What actually improves your working life is control over how the work is done rather than a longer list of people reporting to you. Management arrived as a reward and functions as a tax. Negotiate for autonomy specifically, since it is the thing you want and it is usually cheaper for them to give.
You are underpaid by exactly the amount you never mentioned
Your salary reflects what was offered rather than what the work is worth, because raising it has always felt like a poor use of a conversation. The gap compounds every year it goes unaddressed. Find out the market figure and take it into the room, since here the information does most of the work and you only have to say it once.
Doing it properly is the point, not the ladder
What has kept you going through the dull stretches is the standard rather than the prospect of advancement, and any career advice that assumes otherwise has never fitted you. That is a coherent value. State it to yourself explicitly, because a great deal of the frustration you feel comes from measuring your life against a ladder you never wanted to climb.
Respected widely, known by very few
A great many people in your field think well of you and almost none of them could say anything about your life. That is partly reserve and partly the shape of professional regard. Tell one colleague something ordinary about your week, since the respect is already secure and the acquaintance is the part that is missing.