Spelloween 2025: Day 28

Don’t mind me. Trying to get back into the groove of habits left behind. Today is October 28, 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 28: 2 of Cups – I Love You, I Love You Not

Gather the following:

• The 2 of Cups tarot card from your preferred tarot deck. If you are using an alternative deck, then pull the card that corresponds to “love”, “attachment”, and/or “desire”.
• Water will be used in this spell, so you may make a copy of your chosen card, secure it in a waterproof baggie, or create a custom token that represents the card.
• A small glass of potable water. No smaller than a shot glass, no larger than what you can pick up one handed.
• A place where you can pour out the water that is “uninhabitable”, such as a concrete driveway/walkway, asphalt road, or other place that is injurious to natural life. The idea being that any water placed there is “wasted”.
• A small section of paper and a writing utensil.
• Optional: Art supplies for the paper.
• Optional: Tissue paper or thin paper.

While the Lovers card is about personal life choices and life-changing decisions, the 2 of Cups is about Love™. The heart wants what the heart wants, but what if it wants something that is not good for it (and thus, not good for you)? This spell is to help you remove that detrimental attachment from you.

The spell:

1. Prepare your working area according to your personal custom. There place the 2 of Cups tarot card, the glass of water, the section of paper, and your writing utensil (or art supplies if there is room).
2. On your section of paper, write or describe what you fervently want that is not good for you to indulge in. This could be an action, an object, a relationship, or a personal status. It could be something with a mild effect or something with a very deleterious effect. Optional: You may create this ahead of time, to include printing it in advance. Further Optional: You could use a sigil, symbol, or other artistic effect to refer to this unwanted desire. The point being that you know what those fancy glittered squiggles mean.
3. Place your tarot card in the middle of your working area so that it is facing up and upside down from your point of view. (Optional: You may place the card so that it is “cross” from your point of view. That is, so that the long axis is laid left to right instead of up and down.)
4. Place your inscribed paper on the card, face up and upright from your point of view. If you are concerned that the media you used may mar the card, you may place a slip of tissue paper or thin paper between your inscribed paper and the tarot card.
5. Pick up your glass of water and toast the inscribed paper. Still holding the glass, speak to your unwanted desire and tell it how much you want it even though it’s not good for you.
6. Place the glass on the inscribed paper.
7. Grasp your hands as if for supplication, pleading, and/or prayer according to your personal worldview and habits. Recite the following (out loud or silently):
   “No more.
   Though I love you, no more.
   Though I want you, no more.
   Though I need you, no more.
   I will learn to love myself more than I love you.
   I will learn to want what is good for me more than I want you.
   I will learn to honor the need for what is good for me more than I honor the need for you.
   I will continue on, and you will remain behind.
   I will continue on, and you will be in my past.
   I will continue on, and you will be something I do not indulge in anymore.
   No more.
   No more.
   No more with you.”
8. Stand up, take the glass, and pour out the water in the place you have already identified as “uninhabitable”. That the water will evaporate and rejoin the water cycle is inevitable. But it will do so absent of any further involvement with you. Once the water is poured out, dry the glass and return to your working area.
9. Place the dry and empty glass upside down on the inscribed paper, effectively trapping it under the empty glass.
10. Recite the following (out loud or silently):
    “I don’t need to drink you up to keep going.
    I don’t need to hold you in my heart to keep going.
    And though I will miss you, I will not miss the pain you gave me.
    I did away with you today, and I will do it again.”
11. Sit a moment in a comfortable posture. Remind yourself (out loud or silently) that this is just a part of a greater working that may involve professional help. There is no shame in taking this step. There is no shame in repeating this spell. There is only doing what you need to do to take care of yourself.
12. If you skipped Step 11, go back and do it now.
13. Conclude this working in whatever custom is personal to you. Clean the glass and put away. Place the tarot card back in its deck. Destroy the inscribed paper according to whatever method is most satisfactory to you. Keep no part of the inscribed paper.

Rejecting something that is of personal value to you is hard. It is easy to reject something that you will never have a chance of obtaining. It is an ordeal to reject something that has been at your hand for some time. This is a spell that is meant to be repeated often, but also a spell that is meant to be part of a greater series of workings and actions. Let your friends help. Let professional assistance help if you are able. Don’t berate yourself if you pick it up again. That just means you get to put it down again.

Ice cream helps.