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I asked some people what they wanted me to write about and the over whelming response I got was… Your hopes and dreams.

Ok so on high demand here is my, Egeria La’Brune’s Hopes and Dreams…related to my journey.

I started this journey many years ago in hopes of finding peace for myself and coming to terms with the lives that were surrounding me. Unaware that by choosing the path I was actually not only going to have to find peace for myself, but for all that surrounded me.

When I first started dabbling in the craft I was affected by a ton of outside negative influences. There were people in my life, without me even knowing, that were bringing me down. It wasn’t that they were directly trying to hurt me or even directly trying to hurt themselves but by staying stagnant and choosing not to grow as a person they were hindering my growth as a wiccan, my growth as a human being.

The craft forced me to look at things with different eyes. Forced me to see the beauty in nature, the energy in nature. To look at myself as a force of nature. Wicca taught me that my actions not only have a an action but forces reactions from all that surround me. I discovered that I too am energy, good and bad.

As I began to understand the importance of even the tiny choices I was making in my daily life I understood also, that  the people I was allowing to be a part of my life were influencing and hindering my growth. Their negative energies and actions were canceling out all the positive energy I was trying to put out.

I once read this quote and it put things in perspective, “most people lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group” – Anthony Robbins.

My friends and even some family members and work colleagues  that I was allowing to be a major part of my life were only keeping me down. And once I knew it, I had to change it.

I began distancing myself from them every time they did something negative. I stopped answering their calls, meeting them for lunch, I even stopped sharing coffee with them in the break room. Over time our interactions became less and less.

It all sounds so sad. It all sounds like I gave up my friends, my work buddies and some of my family. Don’t get me wrong family is family. You have to love them but you don’t have to like them all the time, and you certainly don’t have to spend an hour on the phone with them once a week only to listen to them complain about every tiny detail of their life. It sounds like that by choosing the craft I was choosing a lifetime of solitude.

But that’s now how it is. The craft opened my eyes to the energy around me. It changed how I felt about my connections with people. I choose to not allow negative people into my life. And as a result I now have wonderful friends who only show kindness and support, my work buddies have changed and I now have coffee with very upbeat positive people who share a future in the company and my relatives well they are still related, not much I can do about that.

I can say now that my hopes of finding peace for myself and my surroundings when I started this journey were fulfilled. By choosing the path I am now at peace with myself and my environment and anyone I allow to be a part of my circle of influences.