Hecate stands at the crossroads — the triple goddess who sees past, present, and future simultaneously, who holds torches in the darkness between worlds. She is the only deity who assisted Demeter in searching for Persephone. Hex 29 (The Abysmal) is the darkness she navigates: doubled water, the dangerous passage that requires trust in what you cannot see. Hex 44 (Coming to Meet) is the unexpected encounter at the crossroads: wind below heaven, the moment something uninvited arrives from below. Hecate's liminality — her refusal to belong to any single realm — makes her the patroness of anyone standing at a threshold. The I-Ching is itself a crossroads technology: the moment of divination is the moment you stand where multiple paths converge.