Choose Art: A Yule Gift

Storytelling is one of the most human art forms. Perhaps animals do it as well, but we are not able to access that information (yet). So it seems quite our thing.

For me, tarot reading is a form of storytelling, and my passion for it’s archetypes and the hero’s journey relates directly to my first love of movies.

In school, I was the nerd who would gab about my most recent fixation to the point that other kids would roll their eyes when mine went dreamy.

I still do this. I get super excited about one filmmaker or one performer and I deep dive into a rabbit hole of their work.

I had been embarrassed about this habit for years. Only recently have I come to embrace this mindset as a healthy love of life itself.

I now see this fascination as a type of archetypal tarot card:

What is this artist’s message for me in my life?

Perhaps it’s to laugh more, or get focused, or improvise more, or be more open-hearted.

This is one approach to treating life as art.

Where our attention goes has valuable meaning.
What we give attention to designs how we think about life. 

Often, I find myself watching junk TV, and wondering why I am feeling down on the mundanity of life.

This year, I found the free Kanopy App. It’s a well-curated streaming channel that gives you points to watch movies each month when you sign up with your local library card.

Their selections are vast and center on artistic cinema. Their films are typically independent, or worldly, or classics, or fabulously weird. There’s some fun mainstream ones in the mix as well.

Whenever I make the choice to watch something here, I feel more enlightened and enlivened afterward.

My Yule gift to you this year is this google doc of a list of my favorite films you can watch on Kanopy and directions of how to sign up.

I don’t get anything for this but my own joy of sharing quality entertainments, and perhaps some sense of value in my Film BA degree.

If you ever want to write me about a film you watched from it, I welcome your insights and opinions as well, even if they disagree with mine.

Of course, a great last minute gift for that person who needs to see their own life as art is a tarot reading with a passionate story-seer.

Use the Code GIVETAROT for a discount of 15% off regular rates when you give a gift certificate to a loved one.

Mercury Retrograde discount is always 10% off with the code RETRO2023, but you’re welcome to use the better code and gift certificate yourself a future reading as well.
I hope you might also enjoy some quality downtime after Christmas and prepare for the new year with a tarot reading or lesson.

Bring your friends and family a unique experience with an online tarot event or perhaps to learn tarot together.

I hope to see you soon, and I hope you enjoy some of the movies I shared in this gift.


Live Artfully,

Jenna Lynne Roberts

Present Path Tarot