Spelloween 2025: Day 27

Don’t mind me. Trying to get back into the groove of habits left behind. Today is October 27, 2025, and it’s time to have some fun. Each day of the month of October, I’m going to put together a little spell that involves one of my favorite tools: Tarot cards.

None of this is meant to be taken seriously, unless you want to do just that. All of this is in fun and with good intentions. All of this is meant to bring me joy. If you get some of that joy-juice as well, then all the better.

These spells are meant to be modified, adapted, used “as is”, or as inspiration for your personal rituals. Feel free to change them to suit your personal circumstances.

Day 27: 9 of Cups – The Wishing Well

Gather the following:

• The 9 of Cups tarot card from your favorite tarot deck. If using an alternative deck, pull the card that corresponds closest to “wishes” or “desire”. As water will be involved with this spell, you may make a copy or representation of your chosen card to keep the original card safe. You may also place the card in a waterproof storage bag as long as the bag is clear.
• An unopened bottle of water. If possible, obtain an 8oz (240ml) bottle. A larger bottle can be used for this spell. The water may be plain, mineral, and/or carbonated. However, teas, juices, and other beverages that have water as a component would not be suitable. The container does not need to be transparent and may be opaque.
• Optional: The water container for this spell, as written, will be left out for nine consecutive nights. If you are comfortable using a resealable water bottle or glass with lid for this spell, then do so in lieu of purchasing bottled water.
• Two small sections of paper and at least one writing utensil.
• Optional: Color pencils, pens, or other visual medium art tools.
• An area where you can safely place this working for nine consecutive nights without interruption.

For me, the 9 of Cups is the “Wishbringer” card. It represents the manifestation of a deep desire, one that is rarely spoken about if spoken of at all. It is the realization of the “What If” and the best possible outcome of “What Could Possibly Happen”. In a tarot reading, while it promises a good outcome for the querent, there is an understanding that the querent has to do something to trigger the arrival of the wish. This spell is an attempt to do just that.

The spell:

1. Before any preparation, identify a place where you can place the card and unopened bottle of water for nine consecutive nights without interruption or bother. Once placed, the card and water will be left alone, so if you have to place it in a locked cabinet to assure the spell’s integrity, that works just fine.
2. Prepare your working area according to your usual custom. There, place the tarot card, paper, at least one writing utensil, and bottle of water. If it is your custom, consecrate the tools before proceeding.
3. On one section of paper, write your wish. If you are uncomfortable writing it out in plain language, create art and/or sigils that represent that wish instead. (Optional: If your level of artistic skill is as bad much as mine, you may print out your art/sigil prior to this working instead and present that at this time.)
4. Once the inscribed paper is safe to touch without smearing or marring other surfaces, place your tarot card in the middle of your working area. Cover the inscribed paper with the other paper section, and place them on the tarot card, face down. So the inscribed surface will be facing the tarot card, but the second section of paper will be in between the inscribed section and the tarot card.
5. Pick up your bottle of water with both hands and recite the following three times (out loud or silently):
   “My heart’s wish,
   Desire,
   Come to me.”
6. Place the unopened (or resealed depending on your preference) bottle on top of the paper, place your hands on either side of the assembly (without touching it) and recite the following (out loud or silently):
   “I thirst, give me good water to drink.
   I yearn, my soul aches for what it wants.
   The well takes time to fill, be patient.”
7. If you choose to sequester the working elsewhere, you may move the working to that chosen area. You may move it as an assembly if you are deft or piece by piece if you are not. Make sure that the working is reassembled the same as it was in your working area: Tarot card (face up), the plain section of paper, the inscribed section of paper (face down), and the container of water placed last.
8. Once the working is in place, clasp your hands in a gesture of respect and remind yourself (out loud or silently): “Be patient.” This ends the first night.
9. Over the next eight nights, as close to your original time as you can, expose/uncover/reveal the working if necessary, clasp your hands and remind yourself (out loud or silently): “Be patient.”
10. After the ninth night where you remind yourself to be patient, you can conclude the working by declaring (out loud or silently):
    “The well is full, draw water and drink.
    Good water to soothe the aching soul.
    Water to bring you what you need most.”
11. After declaring the well is full, take the water, break the seal (if necessary) and drink as much of the water as you can safely. If there is water left over, pour it out in your garden (potted or landed), down your sink, or down your toilet. Do not pour it out where it cannot soak into the ground like on a driveway or on concrete.
12. Your working is concluded. You may put away the tarot card. You may keep your inscribed paper for a repeat of this working, or you may dispose of it in the manner of your choosing.

Another name I have for the 9 of Cups is the “Tavern”. Under this title, it represents a place where you go to be entertained, to be told stories, to have a different life, even if only for a little while. Depending on your choice of beverages, you may choose to use something different for this spell. Whatever your choice, be safe with your decisions as what may be fun for the moment may have lasting undesirable consequences later.