Big Fish searches for stability; it wants to find a firm, unchanging structure for its life. But its efforts to achieve this ideal are often vain, because unconsciously, it is also inhabited by the opposite desire. Every time it reaches what it believes to be a good balance, it realizes it wants something entirely different. It would do well to become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life. By definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

Big Fish has a sensitive personality and behavior that is prone to being disrupted by a contradiction between the masculine and feminine archetypes ruling his psyche. Because his sensitivity is in conflict with his determination, his attitude and performance may be moody, fluctuating, and uncertain. Usually, Big Fish has the feeling that he has to make superhuman efforts to succeed in assuaging his yearnings and fulfilling his ambitions. His unconscious, sensitive side often disapproves of his conscious endeavors and stealthily works to defeat them, causing crucial omissions, mistakes, and gaps which effectively sabotage his plans. In his relationships, the images Big Fish builds up and projects on the other are contradictory. As a result, any bond, even if it is pleasant and positive, also grates on his nerves. Big Fish finds it dissatisfying and irritating at the same time.

Big Fish has a great potential for creative, constructive accomplishments; however, it is sometimes difficult for Big Fish to gain access to this part of itself. Big Fish is confident in itself and life but may tend to be nonchalant. Sometimes Big Fish needs a little stimulation to get itself rolling and take some initiative. Big Fish’s optimism and inner certainty do not always drive it to give its utmost efforts to achieve a goal. The communications skills Big Fish possesses are an advantage as well as a handicap. Big Fish makes use of its theatrical gifts, convincing eloquence, and ability to listen. The best careers for Big Fish would be teaching, communications, philosophy, the legal profession, theater, and public relations.

You are a sober and rather reserved person, and may even strike people as harsh and austere at times. Perhaps you were raised in an atmosphere of rigor and sobriety, and, as a result, grew up very fast. You have acquired a spirit of self-sufficiency, tend to be rather uncompromising, and have a touchy sense of your personal dignity and worth. It is almost as though you were fighting an inner battle with your father or a father figure. The psychological models you received from your father or a father figure as a result of your interaction and your own interaction with authority may not have played a major role in shaping your relationships with the outer world and society. You may thus have been forced to compensate for this with individual determination. As a result, although you are skillful, meticulous, conscientious, and efficient, a lack of self-confidence and personal assurance sometimes makes you timid and hesitant. You sometimes feel as though you are only masquerading as a respectable, sober adult. You tend to be far too critical of yourself and rarely feel satisfied that you are living up to your ideal. These unnecessary guilt feelings may lead you to turn down the prominent career positions for which you are fully qualified. You are aware that early success is often short-lived and fragile and that time rewards those who know how to be patient and persistent, like you.

Big Fish watches as you cringe from life, passively hoping for a better future, a utopian society, or a transcendent state of consciousness. However, by taking refuge in dreams, you may expose yourself to adversity, both socially and in your private life.

You are a very sensitive person who tends to live in osmosis with your surroundings. Your individuality almost seems to be diluted in a flood of sensations and impressions which are continually washing over you, and it can sometimes be difficult for you to communicate your feelings to other people. This tide of emotion is a source of inspiration and intuition, but your fluid inner structure and organization can sometimes make it difficult for you to grasp the essence of your dreams and share them with other people. You are not at all combative, and this can hinder your efforts to fit into society and assert yourself productively. You are likely to prefer fantasy to reality, but your refusal to abandon your unattainable dreams is a psychological trap you have fallen into without realizing it. You must understand that by running away from your obligations and commitments, you only increase the feelings of guilt which made reality so distasteful in the first place. Once you free yourself from this pernicious process, you have a great deal of potential for fulfilling yourself in the outer world, either by devoting yourself to some sort of social work or by cultivating your considerable artistic talents.

Big Fish has an inalienable awareness of the void and the vanity of existence. He is sometimes disoriented and deconstructed by an unknowable, unconscious force and tends to ignore or disparage the superficial pleasures and pains of daily life, preferring to dive into the depths of human experience as deeply as his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual capacities permit. Grappling with his “fundamental nature,” with the deepest and most primitive part of himself, he is sometimes aghast at the discovery of the sheer power of his instincts and feels an imperious need to cope with them. This special consciousness he has been endowed with is somewhat beyond the bounds of conventional schools of human understanding and thought and may be a source of identity problems for him at the outset. It is not easy for him to recognize himself in any social or narcissistic models, or identify with any existing roles or attitudes, so he sometimes finds himself forced to assert and express his own identity in a way which may strike his contemporaries as strangely intense if not eccentric.

Big Fish is pragmatic and realistic. He evaluates people and things according to practical, common-sense criteria instead of abstract concepts. A sensualist and lover of luxury, Big Fish takes great joy in material comfort and takes great pleasure in physical pleasures. In relation to others, socially and privately, he likes to build stable relationships and is not especially fond of change. His warmth gives him a great deal of ease when meeting people, as clients (for business purposes), but his close relations also benefit from this affection and his ability to express his feelings naturally and openly.

Big Fish thinks your intellect is lively, agile, and sensitive. However, it does not always avail itself of it and may be confused or irrational in some situations. Although it enjoys playing with words, ideas, and concepts, its thought sometimes lacks discipline and structure. It is fairly preoccupied with details and may tend to waste its nervous and mental energy in futile verbal outpourings. Additionally, its feelings sometimes blur its objective vision of phenomena and people, which may cause it to make errors in judgment.

Although you keep your emotions hidden, you are actually quite sensitive. Sometimes your rather austere and rigid behavior and your refusal to yield too readily to sentimentality discourage others from being too demonstrative of their tenderness and affection. You have spells of melancholy in which you do not feel worthy of being loved and tend to forbid yourself emotional fulfillment. An austere or somewhat traumatic childhood experience may be the source of this behavior. You may have suffered rejection in your infancy, and, as a result, lacked the parental love which is essential to the cohesion of a personality and identity. In order to feel secure, and to protect yourself from ever suffering rejection or abandonment again, you withdrew into yourself and developed your aloofness as a defense mechanism. When you finally let down your defenses and allow yourself to express your feelings, you tend to become impassioned and exalted. You are fairly introverted and egocentric and have a powerful sense of your own identity.

Although big fish is pragmatic and relatively realistic, they are sometimes tormented by an insidious feeling of insecurity which interferes with their ability to grasp reality. Change unnerves them, and at certain times, they tend to cling to old-fashioned customs or lifestyles. Insecurities might cause them to repress their emotional needs.

Big Fish thinks that you are sensitive and irrepressible. Although your bubbling imagination provides an abundant source of inspiration for creative or spiritual evolution, it can sometimes be less helpful and positive in matters that concern your self-assertion as responsible and self-sufficient. In a relationship, Big Fish thinks that you are extremely romantic and do not always see others the way they really are.

Big Fish ponders the meaning of life. He has many dreams and desires, but he does not know which one to pursue. He loves exploring the world, but he is hesitant to reveal himself to others. He is attracted to intense emotions and sexuality, and he enjoys relationships that are fueled by these passions. He would find a career that placed him in contact with troubled people very rewarding.

The personality of Big Fish is dominated by love and affectivity. Love at first sight is a recurring theme throughout his life. His sensitive heart leaps forth impulsively, and his gallant heart sometimes leaps forth impulsively; his rivalries and conquests may be a recurring theme throughout his life.

Big Fish was born with an emotional function that expresses itself in a direct and fairly impulsive way. He enjoys reaching out to other people and making discoveries. An eternal teenager with his gaze riveted on the future, Big Fish is imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Big Fish likes to please everyone and loves country life and good cooking. He thrives on family life and may develop strong artistic talents.

Big Fish is attracted to people who have strong personalities and could fall under the spell of a determined partner. On the other hand, Big Fish might ignore a person who would be an ideal partner, preferring bold and daring adventures or a person to whom Big Fish is sensually addicted.

You have an ardent and amorous character, and your relationships are enlivened by intensity and passion. A charmer perpetually engaged in a quest for the ideal love, you are often more in love with the idea of love than with a partner. As a result, your love life may be subject to some instability.

You are generally attracted to original people who defy norms, standards, and classifications, and expect them to amaze and fascinate you. Your greatest contradictions surface when an intimate relationship is established. Although you merge your ego entirely into the couple, you are likely to demand a total autonomy and liberty which are inimical to intimacy. If your partner charms and captivates you long enough, there is some possibility that they will form a more solid bond with you; otherwise, you are likely to yield to your need for novelty and fall under the spell of an entirely different person who exerts a new kind of charm for you.

Midlife may be a turning point for you from this point of view. Your contradictory attitude may in some ways hide a compulsion to reject and deny the bonds of dependency inherent to a love relationship. Your behavior enables you to remain aloof, to commit yourself only halfway without consciously admitting it to yourself, and to avoid feeling guilty if and when you lose interest.

An insatiable appetite for novelty and exaltation sometimes keeps you from forming stable relationships. Indeed, you are tormented by the struggle between your undeniable need for affection and an equally imperious desire for personal progress and emancipation. As a result of this inner turmoil, your romantic aspirations are usually sabotaged sooner or later by your conviction that your partner has become an obstacle to your individual progress. Because you think of love as a restraint, you may even eventually consciously refuse any emotional approach to love interests. As an ascetic, you will try to deflect the love function from its natural target and use the energy and bliss it generates for other purposes, the process psychologists call sublimation. However, you are also likely to meet “the one” who inspires you to initiate a change in your behavior.

Big Fish has a rather irrational mind and a voracious intellect, which is usually subject to the rule of his prolific imagination. Although he is likely to have flashes of intuition which may prove to be correct, his thought processes are sometimes messy and confused. His mind, which is oriented in many different directions at the same time, is ruled by his emotions and feelings. In tune with psychic and parapsychic phenomena, his thinking requires only the adjunct of structure to rise from the level of a blurry, uncertain, undifferentiated mass to that of a really significant vision with a grip on the real world.

Big Fish tries to shun subjectivity and be as objective as possible. His thoughts are usually structured, and his reasoning, based on objective facts or experience, usually relates to practical goals.

Big Fish has a lively and agile spirit. He is curious and open-minded, approaching various life experiences with an attitude free of dogmatism and prejudice. As a result of his great mental vitality, he tends to have an opinion on every subject, but he does not always have the patience necessary to examine a subject in-depth. He enjoys manipulating expressions and concepts and amuses himself with witty remarks, satire, and controversy. If he learned to control his flow of words and elaborate his thoughts more, he could make a talented communicator. Because he is often too hasty to formulate and construct the arguments which would back up and inform his ideas, he is sometimes misunderstood. He is often blind to the rashness of his judgments and convinced they are well-founded and objective, which sometimes irritates the people around him. If he were to succeed in disciplining his mind somewhat, he would have innumerable opportunities to apply his communications skills to a great career. However, he would do well to be careful of his nerves.

Big Fish has a mind with an insatiable appetite for knowledge and an exceptional ability to learn. Without trying too hard, he could probably accumulate encyclopedic erudition. His intellectual curiosity is such that it is sometimes a drawback. He sometimes has trouble limiting himself to a single subject without being distracted by a multitude of others. Discipline and a conscious effort at organization will be of great help if he wants to deepen his learning and judgment. Once his intellectual faculties are disciplined, he is likely to succeed in any of the following fields: teaching, historical scholarship, advertising, writing (journalistic or literary), travel, etc: – in fact, communication in any form.

It can be difficult for someone whose early years were marked by opposition from authority figures to develop their intellectual and imaginative faculties in a harmonious way. They may have a difficult time integrating new ideas and concepts or giving thought structure and coherence. They may have a distaste for study, which may require a great deal of effort. They may harbor feelings of insecurity that are so acute that they may undermine their will and therefore their ability to compete. However, if they overcame these emotions, they would see that they have plenty of marketable skills and that many satisfactory solutions to their feelings of ineptitude and inadequacy are within their reach. Because this psychological complex may be related to childhood or adolescent opposition to parental or academic authority, they may not readily accept people who represent law enforcement agencies or power as an adult. They may display some hostility or vindictiveness toward them as a matter of principle. They should sometimes be careful of what they say.