I love when creators create in defiance of the youtube algorithm. This video wanted to exist opposed to needing to exist to feed engagement. (no criticism towards pro youtube creators intended)
@@missciera This is actually a common misconception. Sun Sporks prefer to reside on a roof or in a tree. Windowsills are an acceptable but not preferred habitat for maximal effectiveness.
I do enjoy it when people who are grounded skeptics do mystical things for reasons that do not require them to accept mysticism. It reminds me of my wife's birth coach. Her office looked like the kind of place where you'd find crystals and buy snake oil. But everything she did was well grounded and carefully explained and held up when I checked legit sources. It was mostly relaxation, exercise and nutrition, but a few other things thrown in as well. Really helped us get psychologically ready. (And by us, I mostly mean my wife, I got a few tips, but it was obviously her show.)
We skeptics get very tied up in the mechanistic universe we live in needing to follow all the appropriate rules of rationale, logic and science, and to just make sense. But we forget (or don't realise) that we as thinking beings exist to two very distinct and intertwined realities. One, the physical universe is decribed and understood by solid rules and formulae, and the other is the world of our minds, which while based in the mechanistic universe, is so complex and abstracted from the atoms that make it up that we instead are better understanding it via basic building block of ideas, metaphors, and stories. One reality is not separate from the other, but we cannot under stand the world we exist in by relying on one or the other. Is magic real in the solid universe? Probably not in any way that makes sense to my rational engineer brain. Is magic real in the universe of the mind? I think it can have greast value in navagating this universe as a tool built on metaphor, imagination, narrative and hope. The secret in to always see the world through both lens and understand which tools are best suited to each situation.
@@bonolioGiven the quote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, I think that when we sometimes happen upon methods that seem to reliably do nice things for us despite not understanding any of how it works, that is the closest thing to real magic.
Human beings are irrational animals, and while we've honestly managed to be quite rational more often than not, we were sculpted by an evolution that didn't mind sloppy wiring if it got the job done, so it makes sense that sometimes we are better off hanging some little pendants on the sloppy wiring if it feels right. The problem with the placebo effect is that it works. So rational people can have a little placebo now and then, as a treat. Call it "art" so you don't have to explain it.
@@coxj2000 My rabbi came out as an atheist. I had stopped going to temple years before he announced it because I'm also an atheist. But I was pretty surprised to hear he was one too. I do occasionally enjoy reading the Bible. To quote Marilyn Manson "I like the Bible, I like it as a book, like the Cat in the Hat." But I don't really get the logic of praying when you're an atheist. Can you explain that one to me? My rabbi did it out of respect for the culture and tradition. Why do you?
Hi Vihart - I've been waiting for a new video from you for a long time so I could say this, I hope you see it lol. When I was a 7-ish year old kid, a bit lonely in my thoughts and homeschooled, and I was on Khan Academy, you were my absolute favourite part of the whole thing. Your voice was so soothing and made maths, a subject I found extremely difficult to wrap my head around, extremely interesting and full of patterns I hadn't noticed before :D I forgot about your channel after I left Khan Academy, but I recently rediscovered it and the amount of nostalgia and joy it brought me to hear your voice explaining things again was amazing lol. Suffice it to say, thank you for your influence on little me, and for making maths more bearable :) I'm nearing 18 now, and I'll forever be grateful!!
@@VihartI had a similar experience but I’m 21 now. I was already a little interested in math, but I was inspired by you to get graph paper and I drew so many fractals and other patterns based on your videos, and they also helped me find my gender
@ViHart I have the same story! I hated homeschool math for the longest time. Now I'm pursuing a STEM degree, and even in my adult life I find myself regularly returning to concepts you taught me as a kid, which I now understand on a more mechanical level. I love the way you think and the joy you find in something which, to me, has always been a source of pain and tears. It leads me to have hope in the things that I love, and makes the process much less painful. Your art inspires me c:
@Vihart Thanks for sharing Vi. I have watched for years too. Off topic I hope you can PLEASE respond to my other comment/question when you can. Thanks very much.
A Virgo full moon during Pisces season. The point during the mystical month when all the flowing woo crystallizes into a defined structure. Perfectly archetypally resonant!
There's a store near me that sells all sorts of moon spoons, most of them are very pretty glass and the teenagers go there a lot. They also sell very many lighters for some reason.
@@exchable Actually you can wear any of the traditional garments of Germany, as long as you say the chant in the fitting dialect. If your from Berlin though, you don't have to change.
Today I was in sort of a bad mindspace. Feeling the opposite of magical. You single-handedly restored my magic to me. Moon spoon arrives when moon spoon is needed most.
I would not have begrudged you a sales pitch at the end, but the fact that moon spoon does not become a product was really beautiful. You are the inspiration for my video career that I will eventually get around to.
"the more moon I magic the more magic it becomes" is a genuinely awesome poetic statement and this is so cool - tho I'm not surprised lol. I cannot resist moon spoon
Hi Vi! Just wanted to say I remember being in middle school and my math teacher showing the class your hand dance video. I've been watching these ever since! I wish I could absorb your knowledge like a sponge
For clarification, I'm a scientific glassblower, very focused on Big Important Mathematical Science Things, I firmly believe in attempting to disprove hypotheses, but SOMETIMES, something just enters your brain and you have to pursue it, and sometimes, the wings beneath the flesh of your back, hidden, pressed up against your shoulderblades so tightly that you might mistake them for bone, start itching to burst from your flesh like a cat emerging from a homemade cardboard cat house ready to hunt her little toy sushi, and you just know that it's TIME FOR MOON SPOON
Sometimes a thing does just want to exist! yes! I have a bunch of weird sewing projects like that, still lurking in the back of my head waiting to come out. Moon Spoon is delightful, and I love the idea of a magical utility tool! Normally I find occult stuff painfully boring, but this is fun!
I just want to say thank you soooooo much for just being you. Your videos shed (moon)light on things that I never would've thought of otherwise yet also seem like exactly what I needed to hear at that moment. I also went through a magic phase (incidentally around the time you did) and have recently been trying to reconcile it with my more logical side, and then boom this appears. Hell, you even gave me the vocabulary and perspective to resolve what I'd always felt about gender! Idk how you do it... keep it up, though! Now I will definitely be trying the spoon of the moon 🌔🥄
You would appreciate something called SASS Witchcraft. It's magic for skeptics that insist on science based solutions. Fun fact, a lot of witchcraft in the SASS scene just takes full advantage of the open label placebo effect. In other words, a placebo that you know is just a placebo and yet it still works. There's a subreddit. 😅
Whatever kind of artist you are is the kind I aspire to be! The amount of passion you put into everything- music, math, art, magic and food is so so beautiful to see and it fills me with joy to watch your videos. Thank you vihart! I've been watching your stuff since I was a kid and I'm happy to say you're STILL someone I wanna be like one day.
I'll be honest this is probably the last thing i expected from such a math and logic based channel... Having said that... I shall be purchasing crafting materials for my own moon spoon and making a moon spoon craft night with my sister now because I want *MOON SPOON*
I love the state of mind where you don't really know why you might need to do a specific thing and you only really know that you can't not do it :) If this is not magic then what is
i cannot express enough how truly important this video (and all of your videos!) are to me- it's surreal and truly magic the ways in which I connect to this in this exact moment. I may try to express it more clearly in the future but for now all I can say is thank you, truly, from the bottom of my heart, for everything!!!!! from hexaflexagons to moon spoons, you've never stopped bringing gifts into my life since I first discovered your videos ❤ thank you
thank you for reminding me of the magic in everyday life. it's an easy thing to forget, which is why i think i will cast a moonspoon spell of memory this full moon.
This reminds me of when I would mix up all the little pieces from the boardgames around my house to make a 'magic potion' to turn me into a mermaid, and I mean that with the utmost respect. might make a moonspoon in ceramics class now.
I've been for so long in love with the energy, creativity and cadence of your videos, it's so pleasing to watch them, learn stuff and laugh. You clearly are a magical person to me :)
I remember reading in the (introduction? afterword?) to The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss, that he showed it to his good friend Vihart saying, "this is too weird, right?" And that she told him fiercely that she loved it, that it felt like it was for her, and essentially that anyone who thought it was too weird could deal because some of us need this. And, watching this, it just makes such perfect sense how the person who loved that story also made this video, and vice versa. Vihart, you're inspiring me to be more contemplative and weird. You've reminded me of the lonely child who gathered tiny treasures on the playground, forming such intense emotional attachments to some of them that I still cling to them today as a grad student of nearly-thirty. And what a joy to know that the fruits of solitude and particularity can expand with such warmth and sweetness to grow in the hearts of others.
Love this! I just watched a video of 10 magical misconceptions by Foolish Fish and one of the points was "Magic is not provable by someone else." It really takes an individual to put in the work of actually practicing magic to see the obscure and indefinable ways it will shape your life. Thank you for sharing moon spoon!
I am simultaneously quite surprised, completely unsurprised, and absolutely delighted that you, a math youtuber with a chaotic online persona, also dabbles in modern-day magic/witchcraft practices. I love how the whole video is based on the fact that magic doesn't have to be powered by the supernatural in order to be a valid thing to do.
I've spent the last four or so years trying to read The slow regard of silent things, It's the sort of thing that I want to love and feel like I should be able to but I have yet to finish it as every time I try I fall so far into day dreaming that I can make no progress in a book a quarter of the length of it's predacessors. This fact made me immensly frustrating for a long time until I unexpectedly found a story about you tucked into the hiding edges of the book, It made me realize that the right way to enjoy something is the way that you feel is right. For the magic, the moon spoons and an obvious fondness for dreaming, I thank you.
have you listened to the audiobook? there's intentional iambic hexameter, Rothfuss reads it, and it's clear how much he loves words. speaking of, I should listen to it again.
@@MorganBondelid I'll admit that sounds like I would certainly finish the book then, but I think that the audio book lacks the things that I want to put into the book, the places in which I take a break to think of little things I prefer to be self curated so that in whatever little way the experience feels like mine.
I also loved your take on moon water. The comparison to champagne is a really clever way to make the idea that many distinctions that humans make are only as real as the individuals participating are willing to make them more accessible to the more sceptic crowd. I myself am still on the manual stage of dismantling my judgemental thoughts on these subjects, and I'm going to keep champagne in mind whenever these thoughts rear their heads. Really lovely video.
I love it when magic descends in its aura of feathery tendrils! Thank you for spreading the knowledge of Moon Spoon; I shall be crafting one forthwith in preparation for the next full moon.
this is exactly the type of fun tradition that I might actually start doing, just because, though I don't know how long I will remember to do it for. Thank you for sharing all these little random thought processes over the years. Now to figure out how to make a cool moon spoon...
THIS VIDEO, OMG. I feel more often sometimes that some people can't humor something without at least trying to be 100% straight-edged and factual, and I can kind of understand why given how the internet's turned out, but it really makes me wish I could earnestly explore my imagination. Like, yes I am getting an AS in Mathematics, and I also know about tarot, and I know about astrology past the Sun sign readings. That isn't a contradiction, and I wish it wasn't treated like one, because I don't have to filter everything I do through total rationality to find meaning in the things I do. I wish upon the moon spoon to scoop fortune upon my window sill, and I will leave it in view of the street lamp where the Luna Moth alights in August. Edit: So I actually made a moon spoon and it's been really fun to try this out. I feel the need to ask, did you purposefully upload this close to a full moon? Because there's conveniently a lot of moon to scoop tonight...
Watching this I can help but feel a magical whimsy inspite of my skeptic ass I just want to dance and sing in the moonlight: "Moon spoon is never the same!"
I still cannot believe it has almost been a decade since I've been watching you...I actually discovered you on Khan Academy...and it is incredible how you're still posting.
I love this! Things become real because we give them weight, we treat them as real. And then they become as real a part in ordinary life as anything else. Nothing is special, its just what we’ve made real by believing they’re real.
I was just thinking on saturday about how I'd love to have something fun and special to do on the full moon because I love them, but had no idea what to do. Thanks to moon magic and your wonderful brain now I have a plan for the next full moon! Thank you for everything you do and all the awesome videos you make
You are genuinely one of my favorite youtubers and its always a treat to see you uploaded, i think its hilarious that i know about you because some other youtuber shouted out your videos on pi day xD
"I'm not sure what type of artist I am exactly, but sometimes a thing wants to exist" 😭 love it so much
Riiiiiight????!
this descibes the type of artist i am perfectly
Reminds me of PeterDraws, who likes to say things like: Make something that never existed before.
Everyone should try to live their life by this norm.
She said this and I thought, “you are every kind of artist.”
I love when vi disappears for three months just to drop a random video explaining she's been doing magic this whole time.
lol this started my magic phase
I love when creators create in defiance of the youtube algorithm. This video wanted to exist opposed to needing to exist to feed engagement.
(no criticism towards pro youtube creators intended)
Vi is magic, and I love every second of it.
Not just any old magic, either, but Moon Magic. That is some seriously powerful magic!
"Moon spoon is never the same. Moon spoon on the window frame" is going to be stuck in my head forever
I'm expecting that verse to echo around in my head for eons until I finally give in to it and make a moon spoon.
One can have a spoonful of Moon, as a treat.
"Can I scoop some Moon?" "Sure, but only a spoonful." cue comically large moon spoon
and a comically large window frame to put it atop
That requires a comically large moon. Maybe take it on a flight to Jupiter?
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721I feel like a comically large moon would be smaller than the real one.
@@xrosethegreat9048 My spoon is too big :(
now we need the sequel: SUN SPORK
You're playing with power beyond your comprehension there, friend
YES THIS
SUN SPORK ON THE WINDOWSILL
SUN SPORK IS HAPPENING STILL
Combining the Moon Spoon and the Sun Spork, we create a pair of Universe Utensils!
@@missciera This is actually a common misconception. Sun Sporks prefer to reside on a roof or in a tree. Windowsills are an acceptable but not preferred habitat for maximal effectiveness.
I do enjoy it when people who are grounded skeptics do mystical things for reasons that do not require them to accept mysticism. It reminds me of my wife's birth coach. Her office looked like the kind of place where you'd find crystals and buy snake oil. But everything she did was well grounded and carefully explained and held up when I checked legit sources. It was mostly relaxation, exercise and nutrition, but a few other things thrown in as well. Really helped us get psychologically ready. (And by us, I mostly mean my wife, I got a few tips, but it was obviously her show.)
We skeptics get very tied up in the mechanistic universe we live in needing to follow all the appropriate rules of rationale, logic and science, and to just make sense.
But we forget (or don't realise) that we as thinking beings exist to two very distinct and intertwined realities.
One, the physical universe is decribed and understood by solid rules and formulae, and the other is the world of our minds, which while based in the mechanistic universe, is so complex and abstracted from the atoms that make it up that we instead are better understanding it via basic building block of ideas, metaphors, and stories.
One reality is not separate from the other, but we cannot under stand the world we exist in by relying on one or the other.
Is magic real in the solid universe? Probably not in any way that makes sense to my rational engineer brain.
Is magic real in the universe of the mind? I think it can have greast value in navagating this universe as a tool built on metaphor, imagination, narrative and hope.
The secret in to always see the world through both lens and understand which tools are best suited to each situation.
@@bonolioGiven the quote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, I think that when we sometimes happen upon methods that seem to reliably do nice things for us despite not understanding any of how it works, that is the closest thing to real magic.
Human beings are irrational animals, and while we've honestly managed to be quite rational more often than not, we were sculpted by an evolution that didn't mind sloppy wiring if it got the job done, so it makes sense that sometimes we are better off hanging some little pendants on the sloppy wiring if it feels right. The problem with the placebo effect is that it works. So rational people can have a little placebo now and then, as a treat. Call it "art" so you don't have to explain it.
I'm a Bible-reading, praying atheist. I'm probably going to atheism hell but eh
@@coxj2000 My rabbi came out as an atheist. I had stopped going to temple years before he announced it because I'm also an atheist. But I was pretty surprised to hear he was one too. I do occasionally enjoy reading the Bible. To quote Marilyn Manson "I like the Bible, I like it as a book, like the Cat in the Hat." But I don't really get the logic of praying when you're an atheist. Can you explain that one to me? My rabbi did it out of respect for the culture and tradition. Why do you?
Hi Vihart - I've been waiting for a new video from you for a long time so I could say this, I hope you see it lol. When I was a 7-ish year old kid, a bit lonely in my thoughts and homeschooled, and I was on Khan Academy, you were my absolute favourite part of the whole thing. Your voice was so soothing and made maths, a subject I found extremely difficult to wrap my head around, extremely interesting and full of patterns I hadn't noticed before :D I forgot about your channel after I left Khan Academy, but I recently rediscovered it and the amount of nostalgia and joy it brought me to hear your voice explaining things again was amazing lol. Suffice it to say, thank you for your influence on little me, and for making maths more bearable :) I'm nearing 18 now, and I'll forever be grateful!!
Thank you for your kind words, and for sticking around after all these years! Joy is a good thing to find.
@@VihartI had a similar experience but I’m 21 now. I was already a little interested in math, but I was inspired by you to get graph paper and I drew so many fractals and other patterns based on your videos, and they also helped me find my gender
@ViHart I have the same story! I hated homeschool math for the longest time. Now I'm pursuing a STEM degree, and even in my adult life I find myself regularly returning to concepts you taught me as a kid, which I now understand on a more mechanical level. I love the way you think and the joy you find in something which, to me, has always been a source of pain and tears. It leads me to have hope in the things that I love, and makes the process much less painful. Your art inspires me c:
@Vihart Thanks for sharing Vi. I have watched for years too. Off topic I hope you can PLEASE respond to my other comment/question when you can. Thanks very much.
@@OddBunsen What about the gender thing?
All the most powerful magic uses googly eyes.
That's just science.
"The more Moon I magic, the more magic Moon becomes." This video brought me joy! Happy Moon Magicking, Vihart ❤🎉
It reminds me of the Community episode where Abed realizes, "The meaning of Christmas is the idea that Christmas has meaning."
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 yes! Love that 🤣
I love that this was posted on the day of a full moon
A Virgo full moon during Pisces season. The point during the mystical month when all the flowing woo crystallizes into a defined structure. Perfectly archetypally resonant!
And on an hour of a full spoon.
as an engineering girlie who also turns a bit magic from time to time i just adore this video. thank you for sharing it with the world ✨
I wasn't getting it at all until you started going "MOON SPOON ON THE WINDOW FRAME", then I totally got it.
For six minutes and thirty seconds, I felt what it is like to be magical.
That's what art is.
There's a store near me that sells all sorts of moon spoons, most of them are very pretty glass and the teenagers go there a lot. They also sell very many lighters for some reason.
They love to fill them with magic and fly to the moon
Lol
They've strayed from the path of dark magic. The true magicking in moon spoons avoids the light.
Foul light magic!
I'm not easily influenced. But I will indulge in a MOON SPOON in a heartbeat.
Oddly stated, since youtubers are often called social media influencers 😅
Before the "but" you find the lie
@@Schockmetamorphose yep that's the irony
you mean vihartbeat?
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It can be a joyous celebration of lunar cutlery.
Vi, I don't know which deity gifted you to the world but I am forever grateful to them
i don’t even believe in magic and yet i was convinced to crochet a moon spoon and fill it with tiny things
just wait till she gets a neptune knife
I sure do hope she doesn’t commit mars murder with it
just a step away from the esoteric ceres splayd
I seem to recall reading about a Uranus knife on reddit.
I thought Neptune had a fork
I see someone has played knifey spoony before
German speaker here. Translated the chant for myself to use:
Mondlöffel auf der Fensterumrandung
Mondlöffel für immer in Wandlung
can other people use this chant too?
@@exchablesocks in ergonomic sandals might work too
I can offer a version in italian:
Cucchiaio Lunare non è mai uguale,
Cucchiaio Lunare sopra al davanzale!
@@exchable
Actually you can wear any of the traditional garments of Germany, as long as you say the chant in the fitting dialect. If your from Berlin though, you don't have to change.
@@lucafele8558 uuui. Thanks
Today I was in sort of a bad mindspace. Feeling the opposite of magical. You single-handedly restored my magic to me. Moon spoon arrives when moon spoon is needed most.
I would not have begrudged you a sales pitch at the end, but the fact that moon spoon does not become a product was really beautiful. You are the inspiration for my video career that I will eventually get around to.
Record something today! Then maybe toss it away because it's terrible. But like. Do something. Take a step. I believe in you 💜
I adore this. I want to embrace this kind of unashamed creative energy as I grow up. I was laughing so much, it's beautiful.
"What a human being!"
is my genuine reaction after every video, after all those years.
"the more moon I magic the more magic it becomes" is a genuinely awesome poetic statement and this is so cool - tho I'm not surprised lol. I cannot resist moon spoon
Hi Vi! Just wanted to say I remember being in middle school and my math teacher showing the class your hand dance video. I've been watching these ever since! I wish I could absorb your knowledge like a sponge
I am feeling very seen relatable understood grokked etc by this idea of having the magic when it’s around and then letting it go until the next time.
these feel like the kind of rituals that would be described in a Worldbuilding Notes video and I love it
The tiny sliver of venn diagram between these two RUclips channels... what are the chances. I've found my people
YOU GET IT, YOU UNDERSTAND, I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE
For clarification, I'm a scientific glassblower, very focused on Big Important Mathematical Science Things, I firmly believe in attempting to disprove hypotheses, but SOMETIMES, something just enters your brain and you have to pursue it, and sometimes, the wings beneath the flesh of your back, hidden, pressed up against your shoulderblades so tightly that you might mistake them for bone, start itching to burst from your flesh like a cat emerging from a homemade cardboard cat house ready to hunt her little toy sushi, and you just know that it's TIME FOR MOON SPOON
Sometimes a thing does just want to exist! yes! I have a bunch of weird sewing projects like that, still lurking in the back of my head waiting to come out.
Moon Spoon is delightful, and I love the idea of a magical utility tool! Normally I find occult stuff painfully boring, but this is fun!
Oh yeah and genuinely, bubble magic sounds like the coolest thing ever. Thank you for the inspiration for my fantasy novel!
Followed you for years. Much enjoyed this delightful bit of lunacy!
Ha! LUNAcy!
I just want to say thank you soooooo much for just being you. Your videos shed (moon)light on things that I never would've thought of otherwise yet also seem like exactly what I needed to hear at that moment. I also went through a magic phase (incidentally around the time you did) and have recently been trying to reconcile it with my more logical side, and then boom this appears. Hell, you even gave me the vocabulary and perspective to resolve what I'd always felt about gender! Idk how you do it... keep it up, though! Now I will definitely be trying the spoon of the moon 🌔🥄
Moon spooooooon! :D
You would appreciate something called SASS Witchcraft. It's magic for skeptics that insist on science based solutions. Fun fact, a lot of witchcraft in the SASS scene just takes full advantage of the open label placebo effect. In other words, a placebo that you know is just a placebo and yet it still works.
There's a subreddit. 😅
@@Love4everFree and a discord server too!
holy shit new vihart video just dropped
Wake up babe!
the SPEED with which i clicked
So glad to see you're back!!! And came bearing the gifts of moon spoons and imagination!!! Yessssssss!!!
Moonspoon is the EXACT energy I seek to bring to my typically musical and mathematical life 🤩
god i love watching wizards at work
Holy shit you’re back
That "you have my permission" is the invitation from the author to take their creation and continue its journey!
Moon spoon wants to exist, we let moon spoon exist.
Whatever kind of artist you are is the kind I aspire to be! The amount of passion you put into everything- music, math, art, magic and food is so so beautiful to see and it fills me with joy to watch your videos. Thank you vihart! I've been watching your stuff since I was a kid and I'm happy to say you're STILL someone I wanna be like one day.
immediately plotting my moon spoon
I'll be honest this is probably the last thing i expected from such a math and logic based channel... Having said that... I shall be purchasing crafting materials for my own moon spoon and making a moon spoon craft night with my sister now because I want
*MOON SPOON*
I did not know what was missing but, finally, moon spoons exist! Thanks for that!
I love the state of mind where you don't really know why you might need to do a specific thing and you only really know that you can't not do it :) If this is not magic then what is
i cannot express enough how truly important this video (and all of your videos!) are to me- it's surreal and truly magic the ways in which I connect to this in this exact moment. I may try to express it more clearly in the future but for now all I can say is thank you, truly, from the bottom of my heart, for everything!!!!!
from hexaflexagons to moon spoons, you've never stopped bringing gifts into my life since I first discovered your videos ❤ thank you
Twice a year the song "tau" gets stuck in my head and I come back to your page. Good to see you still posting and entertaining people ❤
The fact that your moon ice was star shape is giving me big Super Mario Odyssey vibes.
thank you for reminding me of the magic in everyday life. it's an easy thing to forget, which is why i think i will cast a moonspoon spell of memory this full moon.
Me whenever I run the moonlight greatsword in a souls game
This reminds me of when I would mix up all the little pieces from the boardgames around my house to make a 'magic potion' to turn me into a mermaid, and I mean that with the utmost respect. might make a moonspoon in ceramics class now.
I feel like this is the same process by which we decided horseshoes are lucky but only if held upright.
this is an interesting study of how art comes to be, and also how new ideas are established. fantastic
its always so fun and refreshing to listen to some of your doodling mooning spooning videos - thx a lot for giving me that joy
With each passing season, Vihart increasingly resembles Dr. Patricia Tannis, and I am here for it.
Loving this era of Vihart
I've been for so long in love with the energy, creativity and cadence of your videos, it's so pleasing to watch them, learn stuff and laugh. You clearly are a magical person to me :)
This has such an energy
Can't wait to scroll through every platform that lets people sell to find a moon spoon.
Vi, you make the world a more lovely place. Thank you!
I love Moon Spoon! Especially those lil snake ones. I may need to bust out my polymer clay at some point and craft one. Thanks for sharing!
I need a moon spoon
You can get one at your local head shop lol
Stream moon song by Phoebe bridgers
I'm holding out for a moon spoon til the end of the night
@@noatropeIt's gotta be strong. And it's gotta be fast. And it's gotta be fresh from Vi Hart.
I don't even know what im watching, but hearing the excitement in your voice is very entertaining
I remember reading in the (introduction? afterword?) to The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss, that he showed it to his good friend Vihart saying, "this is too weird, right?" And that she told him fiercely that she loved it, that it felt like it was for her, and essentially that anyone who thought it was too weird could deal because some of us need this. And, watching this, it just makes such perfect sense how the person who loved that story also made this video, and vice versa.
Vihart, you're inspiring me to be more contemplative and weird. You've reminded me of the lonely child who gathered tiny treasures on the playground, forming such intense emotional attachments to some of them that I still cling to them today as a grad student of nearly-thirty. And what a joy to know that the fruits of solitude and particularity can expand with such warmth and sweetness to grow in the hearts of others.
ok its official I'm in love
Love this! I just watched a video of 10 magical misconceptions by Foolish Fish and one of the points was "Magic is not provable by someone else." It really takes an individual to put in the work of actually practicing magic to see the obscure and indefinable ways it will shape your life. Thank you for sharing moon spoon!
This is just absolutely amazing and is exactly the kind of energy I want to see in the world all the time.
I am simultaneously quite surprised, completely unsurprised, and absolutely delighted that you, a math youtuber with a chaotic online persona, also dabbles in modern-day magic/witchcraft practices. I love how the whole video is based on the fact that magic doesn't have to be powered by the supernatural in order to be a valid thing to do.
I've spent the last four or so years trying to read The slow regard of silent things, It's the sort of thing that I want to love and feel like I should be able to but I have yet to finish it as every time I try I fall so far into day dreaming that I can make no progress in a book a quarter of the length of it's predacessors. This fact made me immensly frustrating for a long time until I unexpectedly found a story about you tucked into the hiding edges of the book, It made me realize that the right way to enjoy something is the way that you feel is right. For the magic, the moon spoons and an obvious fondness for dreaming, I thank you.
have you listened to the audiobook? there's intentional iambic hexameter, Rothfuss reads it, and it's clear how much he loves words.
speaking of, I should listen to it again.
@@MorganBondelid I'll admit that sounds like I would certainly finish the book then, but I think that the audio book lacks the things that I want to put into the book, the places in which I take a break to think of little things I prefer to be self curated so that in whatever little way the experience feels like mine.
Why does this make soooo much sense? and fit in with all the math videos as a perfect comeback?
I also loved your take on moon water. The comparison to champagne is a really clever way to make the idea that many distinctions that humans make are only as real as the individuals participating are willing to make them more accessible to the more sceptic crowd. I myself am still on the manual stage of dismantling my judgemental thoughts on these subjects, and I'm going to keep champagne in mind whenever these thoughts rear their heads. Really lovely video.
I love it when magic descends in its aura of feathery tendrils! Thank you for spreading the knowledge of Moon Spoon; I shall be crafting one forthwith in preparation for the next full moon.
this is exactly the type of fun tradition that I might actually start doing, just because, though I don't know how long I will remember to do it for.
Thank you for sharing all these little random thought processes over the years.
Now to figure out how to make a cool moon spoon...
Love how this stuff finds you when you need it.
I am here for this kind of content. Also, great statement in the description! Will definitely try this out
you have no idea how much i love this
-signed, a very silly chaote / diy magick occultist nerd
THIS VIDEO, OMG. I feel more often sometimes that some people can't humor something without at least trying to be 100% straight-edged and factual, and I can kind of understand why given how the internet's turned out, but it really makes me wish I could earnestly explore my imagination. Like, yes I am getting an AS in Mathematics, and I also know about tarot, and I know about astrology past the Sun sign readings. That isn't a contradiction, and I wish it wasn't treated like one, because I don't have to filter everything I do through total rationality to find meaning in the things I do. I wish upon the moon spoon to scoop fortune upon my window sill, and I will leave it in view of the street lamp where the Luna Moth alights in August.
Edit: So I actually made a moon spoon and it's been really fun to try this out. I feel the need to ask, did you purposefully upload this close to a full moon? Because there's conveniently a lot of moon to scoop tonight...
In this episode of Vihart, we incidentally learn about the connection between cultural practices and art
Thank you Vihart! I think it’s time I give up on logic and reason a do some magic for the first time in a long time. Thank you thank you thank you.
Its always a good day when you post! Been having my own magical journey these last couple years
Watching this I can help but feel a magical whimsy inspite of my skeptic ass
I just want to dance and sing in the moonlight: "Moon spoon is never the same!"
this restores my faith in humanity.
I love that vi dips in and out of my life and it's always well received when she returns. I'm off to make moon spoons now
I still cannot believe it has almost been a decade since I've been watching you...I actually discovered you on Khan Academy...and it is incredible how you're still posting.
I love vihart going full bayonetta core
This is why you are my favorite artist. I need to craft my MOOnspoon (cow) now.
The Spoon of Moon is opportunely covered in rune
I've been trying to find something to relate to about how I view magic (and art). This is basically perfect. That's pretty magic. ✨️
It's very comforting to know moon spoon is real and out there and magic for sometimes years at a time
I love this! Things become real because we give them weight, we treat them as real. And then they become as real a part in ordinary life as anything else. Nothing is special, its just what we’ve made real by believing they’re real.
I was just thinking on saturday about how I'd love to have something fun and special to do on the full moon because I love them, but had no idea what to do. Thanks to moon magic and your wonderful brain now I have a plan for the next full moon! Thank you for everything you do and all the awesome videos you make
I’m pretty sure I love absolutely everything about this.
BUT: Will there be a moon pi spoon?
And should we call that a Vi moon pi spoon?
You are genuinely one of my favorite youtubers and its always a treat to see you uploaded, i think its hilarious that i know about you because some other youtuber shouted out your videos on pi day xD
Every once in a while i come across something, usually a video, that just re-jiggers something in my brain. i think this is one of those things
This channel is proof that the internet can be a good thing actually
After that I’m going out back to sit in the light of the Full Snow Moon!
All fun and games until someone stumbles on the four ingredients and words of power that summon Hecate into their living room.
"the round rock in the sky came once more to me... trying to tell a message from a distant time far beyond this earthly plane of so called existence"
The best part of humanity is our ability to imagine something into existence that wasn't a thing before. Long live Moon Spoon!