By Katrina Rasbold
There is a quiet place in the life of a Witch that the outside world rarely witnesses. It isn’t dramatic. It isn’t cinematic. It doesn’t look like a movie scene where the moon hangs low over a forgotten road and bones rattle in the branches.
No, the real crossroads lives in far more ordinary places.
It lives in the stillness between one breath and the next, when your intuition is louder than your excuses.
It lives in the pause before you reach for your phone, your keys, or your courage.
It lives in that strange, suspended moment when you realize that life is changing and you haven’t quite caught up yet.
The crossroads isn’t always marked by a forked path under a witching moon. Sometimes it’s the parking lot outside the grocery store when you sit in your car and think, “I don’t recognize my life anymore.”
Sometimes it’s the kitchen table at 2 a.m. with bills you’re not sure how to pay, a half-burned candle dripping wax onto a saucer, and a spine made of pure determination that is starting to crumble.
Sometimes it’s the long exhale you didn’t know you were holding as you admit, quietly, “I can’t keep doing things the way I’ve been doing them.”
We talk about the crossroads as a place of power and it is, but it is also a place of honesty, discomfort, revelation, and recalibration. It’s where the Witch meets themselves without pretense.
The Crossroads is an Invitation
People like to imagine that crossroads moments are invitations from deities, spirits, ancestors, or the universe and sometimes they are. We imagine the crossroads as a place to negotiate lucrative and yet ultimately expensive deals with dark forces…and sometimes, they are. Many witches, however, have benevolent patrons who nudge them, challenge them, or push them toward growth.
More often, the invitation comes from someplace even deeper: from the Witch within — the self who remembers your truth when the world tries to overwrite it.
Crossroads magic isn’t always about summoning spirits or asking for guidance. It’s about listening to the parts of you that whisper the truth even when you’re pretending not to hear it.
It’s the gentle nudge that says, “You already know what needs to change.”
It’s the raised eyebrow from your Higher Self that says, “Stop playing small to make other people comfortable.”
It’s the hand on your shoulder that reminds you, “You can leave the version of yourself that you’ve outgrown.”
And yes, sometimes it’s an impatient shove from an unseen hand that says, “Move. You’ve been standing here long enough.”
The Crossroads is Your Companion
When I was younger, I imagined the crossroads as rare and dramatic: a once-in-a-lifetime event where my entire world would shift in a single breath. Now, with years of living and decades of spellwork behind me, I see it differently.
The crossroads isn’t an event. It’s a companion.
A rhythm.
A cycle.
A teacher.
It doesn’t appear only during catastrophes or bold new beginnings. It is there every time life asks something demanding of you like courage, clarity, boundaries, honesty, or reinvention.
The crossroads isn’t here to intimidate or bully you. It’s here to walk beside you as you navigate the tender, beautiful, chaotic business of becoming.
Magic at the Crossroads
Crossroads magic is some of the oldest magic we know. It’s the most liminal magic: the spellcraft of thresholds, transitions, and choices. But while some of that magic can be ritualized with candles, offerings, keys, or spirits, the deepest workings are always internal.
Crossroads magic happens when you:
- sit with discomfort instead of running from it
- question your old patterns instead of repeating them
- admit what you truly want
- listen when your intuition speaks plainly
- take the smallest courageous step toward your becoming
Magic does not ignite when everything is clean and easy. Magic begins when you are standing in the middle of uncertainty, refusing to abandon yourself.
The crossroads is where the Witch chooses themselves.
Your Invitation for This Week
This week, I invite you to meet your crossroads with curiosity instead of fear.
Stand in the center of your life and look around.
Notice how it feels to be positioned between what was and what will be.
Notice what pulls you forward and what tugs you back.
Notice what truths rise to the surface when you stop trying to silence them.
You don’t have to make a grand decision today.
You don’t have to pick a path before you’re ready.
You only have to stand in the truth of who you are right now.
That’s enough.
That’s powerful.
That’s magic.
Because the first spark of transformation — the real beginning of spellwork, of healing, of change — starts long before the candles are lit or the herbs are ground.
It starts in the moment you whisper, “I’m ready to see myself clearly.”
Magic begins there.
And so does everything else.
Katrina Rasbold is a professional Witch, published author, priestess, and editor of Green Egg Magazine. She and her husband, Eric, are the creators of the CUSP spiritual path and owners of Crossroads Occult. You can reach her through www.katrinarasbold.com.
Want to join the conversation about this blog post? Go to the Green Egg Forum and scroll for the forum post that relates to this article: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1069823176940972