I was physically and mentally incapable of doing the work that people offered me too busy fighting daily battles with what was, at the time, a mystery disease. So when I approached the crossroads almost two years ago (and then again last year), I got only a fleeting benefit. Instead, they bounce inside our heads, creating a cacophony, a constant reminder that we can’t pull our thoughts together enough to make a melody. However, despite our best “mundane” efforts, we can’t move on or change paths we are stuck with a barrage of ideas that have nowhere to go, no channel forward. Wanting more people to get cocktails with or do witchcraft withĮverybody faces crossroads moments, some enormous, and some that we can maneuver with a bit of finesse.Problems getting noticed at work or with the thing that you do that isn’t “work”.Staring down the blank page or canvas day after day.This covers a wide variety of what I call “crossroads moments.” To me, they represent a big ask to deity or the universe – a “Hail Mary” that helps clear a path when life gets jumbled and blocked. So it is with all due respect to its origins that I employ the term “Road Opener” for this particular kind of magick work.Īccording to Gordon White at Rune Soup, Road Opener spells might just be the most useful spells in general. It’s the guts of magick, really–whether described as Santeria, Hoodoo, witchcraft, shamanism, chaos magick, or more styles than I can name–to create opportunities for a better life out of nothing but the earth and a strong intention. As a Hekatean witch, it only makes sense to call on the power of the Crossroads to help move what seems immovable – to open a path that was previously unattainable. To me, the concepts of “Crossroads” and “Road Opening magick,” are inexorably linked. It can also be conceived of metaphorically, existing within one’s sacred space or inner temple. The term Crossroads refers to a magickal place, often tucked off the main road or by railroad tracks where two or three roads meet, depending on tradition. Many traditions, including my Hekatean practice, lend themselves to Road Opening work through their focus on the Crossroads as a source of power and place of contemplation.

Road opening spell