Most people want to do well; you need it attributed
Most people want to be good at their work. You need the work to be identifiably yours. Pluto in Leo in the 10th house puts the whole question of significance into your public role, so anonymous achievement has never satisfied you and probably never will.
Everybody born across your stretch of years carries Pluto in Leo, so that half is common property and describes an era rather than a person. The 10th house came from your birth time and is the individual half. It aims the need to matter at reputation and public standing, which is why being overlooked professionally lands on you as something closer to an injury than an inconvenience.
You would rather be answerable
On being the one who is answerable. You would rather carry the blame for a decision you made than share credit for one you did not, and that preference has determined most of your career. It looks like ego from outside and functions as a standard from inside. Say which it is when it comes up, since only one of the two is being read.
The test is a stretch with no recognition
There will be a period where the work is good and nobody notices, and it will last longer than you think you can tolerate. That stretch is the actual exercise here. Continuing to your own standard without any external return is what turns the need for recognition into something durable rather than something that runs you.
How the ambition is read
People see somebody who wants the visible position, and they are half right and they miss the part where you will also do the work required to deserve it. The two arrive together and only the first is legible. Deliver something quietly excellent before you ask for the role, since the sequence is what changes the reading.
A reputation you can stand behind
What you want is a name attached to work you would defend, which is different from wanting to be well known, and the difference is everything. Decide which one you are pursuing this year, explicitly, since they diverge quickly and one of them leads to a body of work and the other to managing an image.
The position with your name on the door
You want the role where the standard is set by you and the consequences arrive at you, and any arrangement that distributes both leaves you restless within a year. That is a structural requirement rather than an appetite for status. Ask what would have to be true for you to hold that position, in specific terms, and then start assembling it rather than waiting to be offered it.
Your professional presence precedes you
People in your field have an opinion about you before meeting you, and it is generally more definite than the evidence supports in either direction. That is what visibility produces. Meet one person who dislikes your reputation, directly and without defending it, since the version circulating is not something you can correct at a distance.
The work is how you answer the question
What you produce is not separate from who you are, which is why a bad professional year is genuinely destabilising and why retirement is a subject you avoid. That fusion has driven everything good you have made. Begin separating them deliberately now, while you are still producing, since doing it later under pressure is considerably harder.
You will take credit over money
Offered a choice between a higher fee and visible attribution you have chosen the attribution more than once, and it was a real decision rather than a mistake. It should be a decision each time rather than a reflex. Set a floor below which anonymity is not for sale, so the trade is made deliberately.
Appearing fine is a second job
Maintaining the impression that everything is under control takes real energy, and it runs continuously through periods when it is not, which is when you can least afford it. The upper back and the chest hold it. Drop the impression with one person this week rather than one day, since the maintenance is currently more expensive than whatever it is protecting you from.