I have been a practicing Pagan for twenty-two years and have been practicing my current faith for sixteen years. My faith is an independent Pagan path, shaped by theories and ideas about Bronze Age and Vendel Period Northern and Germanic belief systems, animistic nature worship, ancestral skills, and intentional living. It is rooted in deep respect for the spirits of land, sea, and sky, for the rhythms of the natural world, for the ancestors that guide me, and for the wisdom carried through ritual, tradition, and story.

While I incorporate mythos, deities, cultural values, and ritual elements from later historical periods and neo-Pagan revivals, I do not align myself with any specific Pagan movement. My beliefs and practices do not follow the established frameworks of contemporary traditions that share the same origins. Nor do I consider myself a reconstructionist, as I make no claims that my faith mirrors the communal spirituality of early practitioners.

Instead, my path is one I have forged on my through academic study—through the languages, histories, and anthropological insights that illuminate the beliefs of the past. I have built a personal relationship with these ideas and concepts and with my gods, creating a practice that is both scholarly and lived. Ancient in inspiration alone, and wholly my own.