Other charts want more; yours wants nobody in charge of it
Most temperaments want the number to go up. Yours wants nobody standing over it. Mars in Aquarius in the 2nd house makes autonomy the point of money, so what you are buying with income is the removal of anybody's ability to require things of you.
The sign is why the objective is freedom and the house is why it is denominated in money. That produces unusual arrangements, unusual risk tolerance in some directions and none at all in others, and a financial life that makes sense only once somebody understands what it is for.
Income assembled from unusual parts
Your earning tends not to look like a job: the mixture of sources, the arrangement you invented, the thing that pays because you spotted it before anybody else did. It works and it is difficult to explain to a mortgage lender. Keep one conventional, documentable strand alongside it, purely because institutions cannot read the rest.
Owning things has limited appeal
Possessions register to you as obligations rather than as assets: the thing to be maintained, insured, moved, thought about. That instinct keeps your life light and it means very little accumulates. Decide deliberately which two or three things are worth owning, since defaulting to none is a choice with a long-term cost of its own.
The arrangement everybody said was mad
You will structure your finances in ways that alarm conventional advisers, and some of those have worked considerably better than the standard route. The instinct is genuinely good and it has no mechanism for spotting the one that will not work. Test each against the question of what happens if it fails entirely.
Enough is measured in obligations avoided
Ask what you are aiming at financially and the honest answer is a state rather than a figure: not having to ask, not being required to attend, not owing anybody an explanation. Put a number on that state. It is usually lower than you assume and it is currently unreachable because it has never been costed.
Buy latitude before comfort
Given a choice between a nicer version of your life and a shorter leash on it, you will take the second every time and be right to. Structure the finances around that explicitly: lower fixed costs, fewer commitments, a reserve sized to a year of saying no. That configuration is worth more to you than any increase in income.
Autonomy inside the arrangement
You need to remain a separate economic person inside a relationship, and full pooling produces a discomfort that has nothing whatsoever to do with the individual involved. Explain it as a fact about how you are built rather than raising it as a reservation later on. Described at the beginning it is simply a specification; discovered in the fourth year it will be read as a verdict on the relationship.
Refusing help that came with conditions
You have turned down money from your family, more than once, because of what accepting it would have implied about who decides things. That was probably right and it cost something real. Say what the objection actually was, once, since the refusal without the reason reads as a rejection of the person offering.
Free from is not the same as free to
Everything about your arrangements is designed to prevent constraint, and prevention is not itself a direction. Ask what the latitude has actually funded in the last five years. If the honest answer is that it has mostly been preserved rather than spent, the next decision is about what to spend it on.
Money conversations you find slightly absurd
Status spending, comparison and the whole apparatus of what things signal genuinely puzzle you, and you will say so, which does not go down well among people who are participating. Keep the view and stop broadcasting it at dinner. Nobody has ever been converted at a table and several friendships have been cooled.