You are publicly the one who questions it
The 10th house is where your Aquarius Mercury spends its day, so your professional identity is bound up with challenging the assumption everybody else is working from. That is what you are known for and it is what people call you in to do.
It is a genuine position and a precarious one. Being the person who says the premise is wrong is valuable exactly as long as the room can tolerate hearing it, and that tolerance is not a constant.
The hierarchy does not reach you
Titles, seniority and the usual apparatus of deference have very little effect on how you address anybody, which is refreshing to some senior people and intolerable to others. You have probably underestimated how much of your career has been shaped by which sort you encountered. Read the room once before deciding how much of this to display, and treat that as strategy rather than compromise.
You were saying it years before
The thing everybody now agrees about, you were arguing for when it was unpopular, and almost nobody remembers that. Being early is professionally worthless without a record. Keep dated notes of your positions and refer back to them without apology, because the archive of what you said first is your strongest and quietest credential.
You will not play the game and it costs you
Self-promotion, networking with intent and the ordinary politics of advancement all strike you as slightly dishonest, so you decline them and watch less able people advance. That is a real principle with a real price. Choose the minimum viable version — one honest sentence about your own work, in the right room, twice a year — and treat it as accuracy rather than as marketing.
The field eventually comes to you
The pattern here is a long stretch of being unplaceable followed by a period in which your approach becomes the obvious one. It has probably already happened once. Recognise the shape, because the discouraging part is the middle and the middle is where most people in this position leave for something more conventional.
The unplaceable career needs one label
Your working life does not fit any existing category, which is why describing it takes four minutes and why the opportunities that would genuinely suit you never find their way to you. Invent the label and then use it without variation. A made-up but stable title is far more useful than an accurate and differently phrased explanation each time, because people can only pass on something they are able to repeat.
Novel work has no market rate
What you do frequently has no comparable, so there is nothing to benchmark against and nothing at all protecting you from underpricing it. Set the figure by the value delivered rather than by comparison with a role that does not exist, and be prepared to say a number nobody was expecting. The absence of a going rate cuts in both directions and you have used it in the wrong one with remarkable consistency.
You are respected at a distance
People in your field hold you in considerably higher regard than your actual contact with them would suggest, because your work circulates further than you do. That is a substantial network you have never once activated. Ask three of them for something specific this year. The fact that you have not spoken in five years matters far less than you assume, and the awkwardness you are anticipating is almost entirely your own invention.
Nobody there had done this
The work you do had no precedent among the people who raised you, so there was no map, no contacts and nobody able to advise. You built the route yourself. That is worth acknowledging rather than treating as ordinary, and it explains a specific tiredness: everything that other people inherited, you had to construct while also doing the job.