The Dolphin

Strengths

• ✦Exceptional emotional and social intelligence
• ✦Contagious joy that defuses tension
• ✦Fluid, sincere communication
• ✦The ability to move between depth and lightness

Shadows

• ◦Escaping pain through distraction
• ◦Dependence on the gaze and presence of others
• ◦An apparent shallowness that hides real depth

In love

You love by laughing, playing, touching — contact and complicity are your mother tongue. You need a partner who knows how to play with you but is not satisfied with your surface, someone who asks "and really, how are you?" and waits for the answer. What you dread is the silence of an empty house, and the idea that without your good mood, you would be loved a little less.

At work

You work in a pod, in a team, in conversation: ideas come to you while talking and energy comes to you from others. You shine in everything that connects — mediation, teaching, care, facilitation, communication — anywhere your social intelligence can defuse and gather people. What drains you is solitary, silent work, and environments where joy is mistaken for a lack of seriousness.

Taming its shadow

You escape pain by making people laugh, and it works so well that no one knows when you are struggling. Once a week, before joining the others, spend ten minutes face to face with whatever weighs on you, with no jokes and no screen, and name it in writing. Then tell one person, without the detour of humour: you will find that no one loves you less when you dive.

When it calls you

The Dolphin calls you when you dream of clear water and leaps above the waves, when an old friend reappears with a laugh you had forgotten, when your body craves swimming or dancing. He often comes when seriousness and isolation have closed you up, or on the contrary when you are laughing too loudly to hear what is rising. He asks you to rejoin the pod, and to bring your true voice to it — not only the cheerful one.