Thanks, Os, and I realise that I do owe you an apology. When I first learned astrology, modern astrology was all that was on offer, and I, too, was taught that the chart was a representation of you. I haven't thought that way in many years, but I ought to have realised that for someone who does, saying Venus is in terrible shape is probably going to be read as 'he says I don't know how to do Venus-stuff! I suck at it!'
No, no, no, I don't mean it that way at all, and I am so sorry if you took it that way. In trad astrology, the point of the ascendant is the person. The rest of the chart is the life circumstances and people (your 'transpersonal energy'?) that the person will have to deal with one way and another. And those energies are not always conventionally good. Nor do we always have control over them. I speak from a traditional perspective, I realise that many modern astrologers would disagree.
So when I look at Venus cadent from the angles in your chart, and in Virgo, I don't see it bringing any energy to your career. It isn't connecting to the MC, and since it rules your MC, that's something of a debility. In short - there aren't a bunch of Venus people/Venus types of experiences in your life that can easily help you into a job. There's no fault there. Just Venus not doing its job for you.
As to the Saturn stuff, it just looks nasty to me, again, from a practical perspective. It can play out any number of ways, but when I see a detrimented Saturn in 7, squaring the MC no less, and Saturn's dispositor in 12, I tend to see stories like partners becoming incapacitated through serious illness, confinement, that sort of thing. It won't necessarily play out that particular way (but I've seen it happen that way a lot), and it isn't your fault. It's just something that has a high probability of not working out well for you. Not something you're doing, or wishing on yourself or anyone else.
In trad, you really can't have a planet too dignified. It will bring good energy and experiences to a person's life. And life is hard enough, we need those things.
There is a big philosophical difference between trad and modern. In trad, it's like there are sometimes bad things that you can't avoid but maybe can prepare for, and if you're an astrologer, you're going to try to steer your clients around the rocks to the best of your ability so that hopefully they can pursue things in life that give them some happiness instead of things that feel like hitting your head against a brick wall. In modern I think the emphasis is seeing everything as somewhat-to-entirely within your control, for the best, and as a means for personal growth.
Me, I've seen too much horror in this world. And if I can help someone find a way out of a situation that's causing them a lot of pain, that's what I'm going to do, and it's an honour to be able to do it. A lot of times you can't. But sometimes you can. One of the things about astrology that amazes me.
It's a very different kind of philosophy to modern, I know that, as are my reasons for forsaking the modern stuff for the traditional. But that's a whole other lengthy discussion or three.