Who are you, Really? Whooo? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)

Daniel Goleman and Emotional Intelligence

I’m a huge fan of Daniel Goleman’s work on emotional and social intelligence. I especially admire the 5 clusters of emotional intelligence that Goleman outlines in his book, Working with Emotional Intelligence. Those 5 clusters are not only sensible, but work in complete synchronicity with Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

It’s so exciting when you see concepts from different sources coincide with each other in meaning and practice. I’ll explore more about that correlation later. 

I addressed Daniel Goleman’s first cluster, Self Awareness, in a post back in September, 2014, involving of all cards, The Empress.  I’m sure there are several more cards that could support this concept, including The Hermit, and maybe even The Devil and The Moon.

As a brief review:

• Self-awareness is being aware of your emotions, what inspires you, drives you, holds you back, upsets you, pushes your emotional buttons and all kinds of “that.”
• Self-awareness is looking at yourself through a mirror, seeing yourself as closely as possible to the way others see you.  By the way, this could be very scary and it takes some courage.  It’s also a life-long journey and one that we can be proud of.

I thought that the little owl mirror was perfect for this concept.   I hope you like it!

Please stay tuned for the next chapter in  my series on Tarot and Emotional-Intelligence” –  Self Regulation and Empathy.