Spirit boards are notorious for having a bad rap. I used one a few times under the direction of my boyfriend\'s mother who blessed us with white light oil before we even got near it. A girlfriend of mine who was very much into green witchcraft got me hooked into mystical capers with her. Our experiments in body field energy had gone well but not so much mirror scrying. Eventually I offered up the idea of a spirit board and we constructed our own.
On this particular occasion we were sitting in the backyard of my home on the grass. It was summer so the mood was quite bright, sunny and not to windy. With our spirit board we looked to find perhaps someone who had died locally but more importantly hoping to find a spirit guide. We contacted a man with an old English name that I assumed was Edwin/Edward. It was not a name I was familiar with already so it was difficult to divine. He seemed to be concerned for his wife Catherine that he wanted to connect with. In some ways I thought perhaps his interest in me was due to the fact I was her reincarnation of some sort. He stayed attached to me in particular through divination for some months.
Eventually we got bored of the spirit board and returned to our other hijinks. It was not until some years later that I ran across some interesting facts. My 3rd great grandparents were Edward and Catherine Jones. Edward had died first and she had been buried originally at a second cemetery across the road from his location. Currently her grave is missing and I think her children may have had her reburied near him. Strange however that the love story ghost so closely resembles my ancestors they had nine living children together and three that didn't survive. The township of Jonesfield near Saginaw is named after them.
I think this is perhaps one of the few examples of using a spirit board safely and getting a positive result.
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Were we reckless or perhaps not serious about what we were doing? Reckless certainly since we did not often do any further research before jumping into practice however, we had a real deference for mysticism as well as a genuine drive to learn more.
What type of spirit board and do I mean Ouija? Yes, but Ouija is a specific design that is not what we used. Because we were being trained by a Stregheria we adopted the belief that any material can be used especially organic materials. The layout was fairly simple, the alphabet and simple answers on wood.
As for the question about me 'divining' the spirits name I did not phrase that part very well when I dictated this. The spirit was very quick to give me his initials but he seemed to become confused spelling the whole name. Rather he spelled one and then a second one as if he was deciding between a legal name and a nickname.
Finally the outcome overall, which seems so long ago, it was quite quickly after this that my friends and I were separated by random chance. While I did end up studying these things much more seriously my trio of three teenagers never came back together to work on anything like this. We hold very differing viewpoints today which probably has to do with how our experiences continued apart. One returned to Christianity and the other is a rarely-practicing eclectic Wiccan. I discovered that I had a family culture I didn't know about and needed to relearn which has explained more to me than one school of thought could.