Informative and thoughtful articles authored by select contributors
By Katrina Rasbold
The landscape of modern Paganism has shifted dramatically over the last fifty years. What began in the mid-20th century as a movement deeply rooted in the divine gender binary has blossomed into a diverse, decentralized spiritual umbrella that increasingly prioritizes radical inclusivity.
Continue reading From Polarity to Pluralism: The Evolution of Inclusive Paganism
By Katrina Rasbold
In the shadow of a volatile economy and a fracturing social landscape, a quiet but profound migration is taking place. While traditional pews sit increasingly empty, the forest paths, digital altars, and moonlit circles are seeing a surge of new footprints. As we stand at the crossroads of 2026, the rise of Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States isn’t just a trend—it’s a spiritual homecoming for those whom the modern world has left behind.
Continue reading The Crossroads of Coin and Craft: Why Modern Souls are Returning to the Pagan Path
By Katrina Rasbold
40 Years – Gone in the blink of an eye.
To flip through the yellowed, newsprint pages of a 1980s Green Egg is to touch a different dimension. In those days, the ink came off on your fingers, and the ideas—bold, radical, and often dangerously counter-cultural—felt like they could set the paper on fire. We were a tribe of correspondences, P.O. Boxes, and wilderness gatherings where the drums beat against a silence that the modern world has all but forgotten.
Of course, Green Egg Magazine goes back to the 1960, so tack on an additional two decades. I threw a dart into the 1980s because that is when I came to the Craft and subsequently, to Green Egg Magazine.
Today, the “Old Religion” has entered the “New Information Age.” As we stand in 2026, the contrast between the Paganism of forty years ago and the Paganism of today is not just a shift in fashion; it is a fundamental evolution of how the human spirit interfaces with the Divine. Continue reading The Great Quickening: Mapping the Pendulum Swing of the Craft (1986–2026)
By Katrina Rasbold
Welcome back to the Witch At The Crossroads blog! Whether you’ve been walking the Path for decades or you’re just starting to notice that you feel a strange pull toward the moon, you’ve probably realized that Paganism isn’t exactly “mainstream.”
While the rest of the world is busy staring at screens, we’re out here talking to trees and celebrating the solstice. But beyond the mystery and the incense, there are some genuinely practical—and occasionally eclectic and quirky—reasons why being a Pagan is a fantastic way to live.
Here are ten reasons why being a Pagan is undeniably cool.
Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Being a Pagan is Actually Pretty Cool
By Katrina Rasbold
The crossroads is not merely a place of meeting, learning, and magic. It is also a place of decisive power.
For too long, the magical community has been told to “keep the peace” or retreat into private practice while the world outside bleeds. We have been sold a diluted version of spirituality that is, in truth, toxic positivity, that asks us to simply “vibrate higher” while the soil is poisoned and the collective psyche is fractured by calculated cruelty.
Enough of that. We are not here to bypass the darkness; we are here to transmute it. We are the darkness and we rule those shadows.
Continue reading The Great Quickening: Forging the Healing Flame
By Katrina Rasbold
As the final days of the year dwindle, a hush falls over the world and we feel a moment of potent stillness before the whirlwind of a new beginning. For those of us who walk a path less trodden, who feel the hum of ancient energies beneath the modern world, this isn’t just a time for champagne toasts and fleeting resolutions. It’s a liminal space, a powerful threshold brimming with magical potential.
This New Year’s Eve, let’s cast aside the fleeting promises and instead, weave intentions into being with the wisdom of the Craft. Continue reading A Witch’s New Year Ritual: Releasing the Old and Weaving the New
By Cat Gina Cole
In the study of psychism, we often take mundane things and use them as tools in our psychic practices. The five faculties of the mind are the fundamental functions of psychism. We use them a thousand times a day without a second thought. But when we draw them out and hone them, they become powerful tools that lead to mastery of our psychic skills and spiritual self. As I work through the definitions of each, you will begin to see how they play a role in our spiritual, magical, and psychic work.
The five skills I speak of are reason, will, intellect, perception, and discrimination. Let’s explore what they really mean and how they apply to psychic skills, magic, and spirituality. Continue reading THE FIVE FACULTIES OF THE MIND
By Katrina Rasbold
Witches have a different relationship with time than most people. We feel the tug of moons and seasons, yes — but also the strange elasticity of hours that stretch and contract depending on the work we’re doing. Time is not a straight line to us but a soft, breathing thing. It bends. It listens. It waits until we’re paying attention.
Magic teaches us that time is never just one thing. Continue reading It’s Witch O’Clock Somewhere
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. Continue reading Where We Stand When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
By Katrina Rasbold
Last week, I posted my “10 Favorite Witchy TV Shows & Mini Series” and I thought I would follow up with a list of my 10 Favorite Witchy Movies. Are they predictable? Absolutely. They are at once predictable and cliche. There are no doubt glaring omissions that will cause readers to say, “But what about…?” and “YOU LEFT OUT…!” This is not a list of ALL Witchy movies or the BEST Witchy movies, but my own favorite Witchy movies. Because it would be like choosing my favorite children, these are listed in no particular order but are the top ten favorites from a wonderful line of magical films I have enjoyed in my life. Continue reading 10 Favorite Witchy Movies
by Tatiara
It began with a simple conversation in a pagan Facebook group. Someone posed a question about what constitutes an “Elder”. As the responses came, I felt something within me stir. I kept returning to that post, rereading the comments. Some were funny, others profound. A few spoke of favorite stories, or teachers they’d once known. But beneath it all, I sensed a deeper longing: a yearning for true eldership. Not just knowledge, not just age—but wisdom. The kind that holds space without needing to explain. The kind that has walked through fire and come back holding sacred embers for others. Continue reading Elder or Oldster? Thoughts on the Wise One
By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
I just had a conversation with a new friend and it struck me. She was talking about how much her life has changed over the years. She faced the risk of blindness last month but it was averted with a quick surgery. She used to work out at the gym 2 to 3 hours a day but she can’t do that anymore because of autoimmune issues. She used to have a lot of energy to go and do things but she can’t do that anymore because of the fatigue that she endures. She used to work an office job full-time, driving herself to and from work. Now she conserves her energy by working from home and her job only requires her to come into the office once a week. She also traveled extensively in her younger years but she can’t do that anymore because her energy is fleeting and due to chronic pain, she has to sleep in her own bed.
By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
I’m watching yet another program- this one from the 1990’s that insists the Witchcraft Trials were all about persecuting the pre–Christian Pagan faiths. I’m not naming this one. There are countless places this is claimed but nowhere is it claimed more than by mainstream modern magical practitioners. Sayings like “We are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn” are shared by people whose family does not worship Pagan gods and many of whom condemn our neo faiths as demonic. Continue reading Wicca – Not THAT Old
By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
Y’all- I am about to go Southern Smother Mother on some folks here. I am watching some of my own, and am really unhappy. I’m going to point out an ugly truth. It has been over three months since it was announced who was going to be president of the United States. A lot of people are unhappy about who won. Some of whom couldn’t even be bothered to vote. And because I’m deaf, and don’t drive, you bet I’m on social media every day. I am seeing so much complaining online right now but no action taken that it’s making me sick. Continue reading Stand Up For Yourself!
By Tatiara
Life, at times, moves in slow, steady rhythms, like the tide lapping at the shore… And then there are times like now—an unrelenting maelstrom of change. The kind of change that upends what we thought was stable, that spirals downward with such force we fear we may never surface again. And yet, within this spiraling descent, there is a choice: to be swallowed by the current or to find a force within us that allows us to stay afloat. Continue reading Aphrodite’s Gift in the Maelstrom
By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
I’m not the only one who isn’t happy about who is our President is. I did my best. I voted, I encouraged others to vote as I did, and I even voted for the non-presidential representatives who I felt supported LGBTQIA rights, women’s rights, the rights of the poor, marginalized, and the environment. In every last election, I vote. We do not get around like we used to, so I give us plenty of time to get our absentee ballots sent to us and we mail them back in plenty of time. I pay attention to who is running for offices, to be judges, and all local issues. I vote for what supports a liberal, inclusive policies. Do you, or did you just focus on who would be president? Continue reading Fighting the Good Fight
By Tatiara
Greetings and many well wishes to you!
This year feels like stepping into a mystery school, doesn’t it? Life is the teacher, and you’re the apprentice, invited into a cauldron of transformation where the sacred turns into something tangible and life-changing. It’s a year for shedding, shifting, and stepping into what’s next with a sense of easeful willingness—like the Snake, shedding its skin without resistance.
Continue reading Year of the Snake – The Truth Beneath the Noise
By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
I think it’s fair to say we have all stayed in situations that no longer served us. Yet, for the sake of habit or perhaps out of a sense of loyalty, we stayed anyways. While there is something to be said for the ability to persist and stay anchored in a place or relationship, sometimes, the situation or relationship is dead. We need to move on. Are you stubborn about a thing like that? Do you dig in your heels, taking pride in your ability to stick it out even in the worst of times? Well, I see you, because I’m that way too. Sometimes, it’s a great gift, and sometimes, it’s a toxic trait. Continue reading When You Need a Change
By Lady Saoirse
Bright Blessings,
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of seeing people make stupid decisions, get screwed for it, and then say that they were just “trying to be nice.” I hurt for people who have been taught from the time that they were children that they have to accommodate everybody to their own detriment. It also makes me sad to see people who don’t know the difference between self-sacrifice and lack of self-love. Continue reading The Magic of Not “Being Nice”