Many people speak of the crossroads as a physical place.

While they can be

that they are even more a state of flux and being. Any place where angles meet
and form corners is a place of energy constriction and expansion. Different
angles seem to possess differing effects in feel and purpose. Long narrow
pathways seem to increase the speed and force of energetic currents, much like
how water may flow through a large pipe and become more intense and direct
as the opening shrinks. This can feel stark and jarring yet be conducive to
harnessing energy.
Sometimes this may occur at a literal crossroads where two or more roads
meet, but often, it is any conjunction of lines or pathways where people or
things go to and fro. Finding a suitable physical location can be of use, though
with time is not strictly necessary, for we carry the crossroads within us.
In any case, it will serve as a meeting place of spiritual convergence much
like a busy airport or train station and may buzz and hum like a power line.

The Twilight Crossroads:

What it is: A place to merge worlds, to “ride the hedge”; to have one foot
always in the “Ever After”.

Experiment with different times of the day or night, yet initially do this just
before dusk. After choosing the designated spot, preferably in a secluded or
semi-private location, stand just outside the intersection. Take a few deep
breaths and center yourself.
Let your gaze wander upon the lines of the road, path, river or architectural
juncture. The patterns and directions your eyes look may be imbedding the
geometry into your brain, forming a type of energetic sigil of the space. The
shape is not something to be too concerned about, as at this stage you don’t need
to memorize it, though you may later have “after-images” come to you, as if
you were viewing a photographic negative. These things were something you
could stare at for a few minutes, then quickly away from, and you would see the
actual image depicted in the empty space before you. If you do get a particular
“image” that acts as a sigilized expression of the patterns present, you may trace
it down later and use this as another way to open and activate these gateways.
The edges may appear to shimmer, become slightly wavy, or otherwise
disappear, particularly in the periphery.
When this occurs, step into the center of the Crossroads. Once there place
your body fully inline along one of the paths. (As if you were walking down
the street). Feel the energy meet you there; flow through and around you.
Once you get a “taste” of its essence, reach out a tendril, as a hand into a river,
and draw this energy into yourself and let it fill you. It will swirl around and
follow the path of least resistance.
Allow yourself to become a vessel to contain it, but also ensure that it flows
freely out of you. One way to do this is to quickly tap back into the Void, as
you should by now have some practice doing. Attach the energy into your
personal energy, and pull it down into the Abyss with you, and see it attached
to the brazier that holds your Black Flame near your Dark Throne. Wrap it
around your throne in a circle, and then back through the Flame. Travel back up
to the Crossroads and feel that loop of energy created: It creates a circuit from the
crossroads, through you, into the Void, around your Throne and then back up and out
through you. Picture a moebius strip/figure-eight if it helps. Next, align
yourself with any other paths meeting or crossing the center and do the same
thing with each one in turn. Eventually you will do this almost
instantaneously; with each “rope” or “tributary” of the crossroad all at once,
instead of separately. --A master weaver handling multiple strings of reality at
once, rather than the single spider creating a lovely web with one strand.
This creates a type of spiritual-bio-circuitry that links all of these elements
together, effectively weaving the “DNA” of the Crossroads into you and your
personal space within the Abyss. As you have just reinforced a repeating and
fractal pattern of energy, when the energy cycles up and out, and specifically
because it had to condense by going through you, the flame, and sling-shot
around your Throne like a rocket around the moon, then back through the fire,
up and out, it creates enough force to rip open a seam in the fabric of reality in
the middle of the Crossroads.
At this point you will may feel heat, and even friction in your body, due to
the influx and rush of energy. It may border on the uncomfortable, but not
unbearable. Remember you can take it, as you were made for this.
You will likely also notice that how you stand in relation to the angle of the
pathway affects the energy flow and how you experience it. For example:

Consider the river of energy as a straight angle representing 90 degrees, in which

you are aligned. If you were in this stream, the water would hit you head-on, as you
cause turbulence in the flow. This angle is ideal for a fast fill of energy. If you stand
completely sideways instead, the water easily passes around you on all sides with
minimal resistance, as you have decreased the surface area it is directly pushing against.
Walking across the flow as it hits you from the side is the easiest way to “hold ground”
and not be swept away, when crossing a river by foot.
In order to navigate the current (in a literal river), in the actual flow, you must angle
your body at 45 degrees to the direction of the water. In a river, this is how one
navigates in a strong current of open water. (Which I did in a swift-water rescue class
in a wet-suit in the frigid North Fork of the Santiam River in the middle of November
during medic school.)
If I wanted to reach the shore to my left, I would float downstream while in a semi-
seated position, feet forward (my body bent at nearly 90 degrees) and angle my legs 45
degrees to my right (in relation to the current behind me) This creates a “rudder” effect,
and the water will push you to the opposite direction your legs are pointed.
In the same way, by placing yourself within the middle of the crossroads at a 45-
degree angle to the “current”, you create just enough turbulence and friction to catch the
water [energy], in a controlled manner, and then effectively steer yourself.
This merging and weaving of forces within the Crossroads, and your
enhanced knowledge of energy dynamics and angles, allow you to become more
sensitized to subtle and overt energy in your environment around you; the
placement of objects and yourself within it.
 You should be facing a corner of the Crossroads, as you are at an angle.
Once you feel the energy build up and rise from the depths, see the Darkness
flow out and expand beyond your body. Imagine that you are in the center of a
black book, which is laying on its spine. You are among its folded pages, though
upright (being 90 degrees to the base/spine, and varying degrees to each page as
they radiate from where they attach. When the book opens, the covers touch
the ground. As the energy emerges, anchor it to the physical location, at the
corners. By shifting and turning pages, you access different layers of reality.
As you are always in the middle, the pages flow through you, and reality is
“bent”, and brought towards you, before being laid out before you.
When you slip through the gate, through the rift, and ride the current,
depending on where you are literally at may determine the “type” of crossroads
you encounter. Like stepping into a crowded spiritual city, you may find
yourself among the hustle and bustle of a seemingly different dimension. You
may come across legions of infernal beings and other higher intelligences, or
you may venture into realms where you may learn its secrets, to be instructed
in many artforms and magickal sciences by the citizens therein. Physical
location seems to be a clue as to the “type” of crossroad it is, and the likely
resonance it will have on the other side once you step in.
Some Crossroads are quieter, bearing feelings of listlessness and solemnity.
These are the ghost-roads where shades and memories walk. Wandering here
are parts of humans that are left behind, a psychic imprint after physical death.
These entities are also walking libraries, as they are tied partly to the Akashic
records. When you evoke the “soul” of a person, this is the aspect that is
conjured.
Another type of Crossroad is a place like the ocean, though I consider this a
“Twilight Place”, as it can have a similar feel. Anywhere you have vastly
different terrain or landscape meet, there is a Crossroad energy and can be
worked with in the same way. One thing I have also discovered are Crossroads
of light and shadow. If you have limited means to go out, or are not inclined to
do so, you may find these places within your dwelling, where doors meet
hallways, or the path of a doorway crosses a room on one path, and a window
crosses that trajectory forming a Crossroad. Be creative.
While in the Crossroads with this understanding, each page is a resonance,
an outcome, that when you open it, it unfolds upon the current reality. It
settles upon the land as the sun dips beyond the horizon. Dusk and dawn are
“crossroads times”. As long as you understand the deeper meaning of
transition, you can do this anytime. During your time in the Twilight
Crossroads, you can explore and experience these layers; see the world through
these different filters and chapters. Using this analogy, you may also create a
“bookmark”, which you also tie to the Crossroads. Upon your return, you only
have to reach out and feel the energy signature to find your place, and hence the
page to open and overlay (which like a cosmic rubix-cube door has endless
configurations).
Whenever you are done here, release your hold on the energy and allow it to
recede back into the Void. The tethers you created with this Crossroad can be
permanent if you wish, and you may leave things as they are. Each time you
come here, the stronger your connection. Because it is tuned to your frequency,
people passing by other times of day may not perceive anything. Only the very
discerning could possibly sense the energy shift and rift in this location.
As you get ready to leave, step out of the Crossroad, and let the energy settle;
returning to “normal”, though this is a subjective word for people who walk the
roads between collective realities. Know that as though you may go, you carry
a piece of it within, and have yourself become a Crossroad of Twilight, both
here and there. You may enter back in to daily life, and have a sharper
awareness of corners and angles, and how energy behaves in each. Use this to
your benefit.