Fisherman
A person whose work is taking fish from water — patient labour conducted at the mercy of weather and luck.
A fisherman in a dream is the dream's image of patient labour conducted at the mercy of weather and luck. The fisherman controls the boat and the net; the fisherman does not control the sea or the fish. The dream brings the fisherman when something in your life — a creative practice, a piece of relational work, an investment in a market — is being done with the right skill and the result is still subject to forces no skill can settle. A fisherman with a full net is the dream affirming the meeting of skill and favourable conditions. A fisherman returning with an empty boat after a long day is the dream noting that the work was honest and the conditions did not cooperate, and the right response is to go out again rather than to question the skill.