What’s in a name?

Why are we called Blue Fish?

In 2018, after leaving my long career in estate agency for new adventures and to recognise this change I also decided to get a new tattoo to cover up an old embarrassing one from when I was seventeen….after much deliberation this ultimately became a Japanese styled tattoo featuring  a Blue Koi Carp swimming upstream.

According to Chinese and Japanese myth, there was once a giant school made up of thousands of koi fish swimming up the Yellow River in China. As they swam, they gained strength by pushing against the current. However, on the Yellow River, there is a waterfall. Once the fish reached the waterfall, most turned back and just went with the current because it became too hard.

The ones who remained continued to try to reach the top of the waterfall. These koi kept trying for 100 years. At last, one koi successfully leapt to the top of the waterfall. To reward this dedicated koi, the gods turned it into a beautiful golden dragon.

The blue koi often represents peace, tranquility, and calmness.

Showing the koi swimming upstream can mean you are currently in a battle or struggle and are still fighting obstacles but won’t give up or you have overcome obstacles and have now gained the strength you need to continue against the current.

So beyond personal interpretations, its fair to say the the journey of the blue koi could be compared to that of a mortgage application/house purchase and hence Blue Fish Mortgage Solutions was born.