Every year around this time my family has a HUGE reunion. Every single one of them besides me and some distant cousins are Christian. This year I think I may have caused a huge rift in the family.

I wear a pentacle on a cord around my neck at all times. The cord belonged to my dead father and it makes me feel safe and secure. I feel wrong without it. When I'm with people who I know will react poorly I wear it around my ankle. I took it off to get a shower and when I got out it was gone. I went into the living room and found my grandmother and several other people sitting around with my pentacle ready to stage an intervention. This particular part wasn't horrible, just frustrating, but it wasn't unexpected. My cousin (whom I'm very close with and understands the craft as she dabbled in her teenage years) came back from the store with my 12 year old brother whom adores me in the middle of this. I don't think anyone expected him to understand what was being said, but he's a smart kid. About ten minutes later he jumped up from the couch and ran into the other room. I got up to go after him and my cousin, mom, and one of my aunts followed me. He reached out to comfort him and he screamed and smacked my hand away. He started shouting about how I was evil and unnatural and I could go to hell if I wanted but I wasn't talking him with me.

I didn't know what to say and just started crying and trying to calm him down. My aunt got him calmed down and sent him to the other room. She rounded on my mom, and was pretty livid. Saying how she was raising her son to be a bigot not a Christian, my mom got upset and starting yelling at me for "always causing problems" (this happened when she found out I was dating a girl as well) My cousin calmed me down and brought me back into the other room where her husband was trying to explain to my brother that other religions weren't evil and everyone was intitled to their beliefs and it doesn't mean he should love me any less. It essentially ended with my mom being pissed that other people were trying to teach her son things other than what she wanted, my grandma telling me I had to leave, and me going to stay at my cousins for the rest of the weekend.

That was Saturday and it Wednesday now and my brother still has yet to let me anywhere near him. I don't live with him anymore since I'm 23, but I really don't know what to do. I love him and I don't want him to hate me 😭😭😭😭

Is there anything I can do magickally to remedy the situation without interfering with free will? I'm so lost right now.

I didn't get my pentacle back either... My cousin is mailing it to me as I'm in NY and this was in TN.