Who is the Gringa Bruja?

Welcome to the online home of the Gringa Bruja, Katrina Rasbold. Katrina now assists clients both online and in person at the shop she owns with her husband, Eric Rasbold in Shingle Springs, California. You can book a reading, cleansing, or spellwork consultation by going to www.crossroadsoccult.com.

Raised in Kentucky, she is fluent in Appalachian and Ozark “Granny Magic” techniques and trained aggressively in HooDoo and Conjure in both African American and New Orleans based traditions. She worked as a Wiccan High Priestess for fifteen years and has studied various academic and experiential aspects of the magical arts since 1980. Two brujos from Mexico and a bruja from Guatemala trained her to work as a professional bruja, which is now her primary practice. Katrina teaches classes in the Tarot, based on her book Tarot For Real People, as well as Primal Witchcraft (Witchcraft without religious affiliation), Brujeria, Wicca, and Energy Magic, the concepts promoted by Katrina & Eric in their Bio-Universal Energy series of books.

Katrina and Eric are co-founders of the CUSP (Climbing Up the Spiral Pathway) spiritual tradition that is now practiced worldwide and is the subject of their book, CUSP: A New Way to Walk An Old Path.

Katrina is a devotee of La Santisma Muerte and is part of the group of devotees that hosts Santa Muerte venerations each New Moon at Crossroads Metaphysical store.

With over three decades of experience in divination and the Tarot, she offers video readings to her clients at affordable rates.

Katrina is a published author of more than thirty-five books including the popular Seven Sisters of Avalon novel series and nineteen metaphysical books, ten of which she co-wrote with Eric.  Their book Energy Magic held the #1 position on the Amazon best sellers list in the category of Neopaganism for eight weeks after its release. Her newest book, Crossroads of Conjure, released through Llewellyn Worldwide in January 2018 and her upcoming book, The Sacred Art of Brujeria, releases through Llewellyn in Summer 2020.