Give this a career and it takes an unrecognisable route
Give this arrangement a working life and it will not follow anybody's path. Mars in Pisces in the 10th house aims a fluid, indirect force at public standing, so your position arrived through circumstance, other people and a series of things you did not plan.
The sign is why nothing was engineered and the house is why the result is nonetheless visible. That produces a career that makes sense only in retrospect, and a permanent difficulty at the moment somebody asks you to account for it in a sentence.
Ambition that felt vaguely improper
Wanting a position for yourself has always sat uncomfortably, so you have waited to be asked and frequently were. That works until it does not. Say once, plainly, to the person who decides, that you want the thing. The reluctance is not modesty and it has cost you more than any competitor has.
Known for something you cannot quite name
People value you for a quality that resists description: the way you handle situations, the thing that happens when you are involved. It is real and it does not fit on a form. Ask three colleagues what they come to you for and use their words, since yours have never managed it.
The credit that went to whoever was louder
Work you did has been attributed elsewhere more than once, not through anybody's dishonesty but because you left the room without putting your name on it. That is entirely solvable and it will not solve itself. Attach your name at the point of delivery, in writing, as a matter of routine rather than of confidence.
Working conditions decide the output
An unsympathetic environment reduces what you produce far more than a difficult brief ever would, and a year in the wrong room will read to you as a verdict on your ability rather than as a fact about the room. It is almost always the room. Weight the atmosphere of a workplace heavily when choosing between offers, because for you it is a determinant of output rather than a question of comfort.
Put your name on it at the point of delivery
Everything else in your professional life works; this single habit is where the losses are. When something goes out, your name goes with it, in writing, every time and without any judgement about whether it is warranted. Make it mechanical rather than a decision, since as a decision it will keep being declined.
A path that only makes sense backwards
Nothing about your working history was planned and it has nonetheless arrived somewhere coherent, which is a real thing to have done and impossible to present as a strategy. Write the retrospective version, honestly, including the accidents. Having a narrative available is worth a great deal in a world that keeps asking for one.
Every role came through a person
Almost nothing in your career arrived through an application, and almost all of it arrived because somebody thought of you. That makes a small number of relationships the actual mechanism of your working life. Keep them warm deliberately rather than by inclination, and say specifically what you are looking for, because nobody can guess.
The success nobody at home can see
What you have achieved does not map onto anything your family measures, so the standing you hold among people who understand the work is entirely invisible at their table. That gap will not close through explanation and you have tried. Take one relative to see something instead: the building, the performance, the room where it happens. Recognition needs a place rather than a description.
Being watched is the part that costs
Visibility takes more out of you than the work does, and a day of being seen leaves you flatter than a week of difficult tasks. Schedule recovery after exposure rather than after effort, because your calendar is currently treating a presentation and an afternoon of quiet work as the same expenditure and they are not.