About Me

My name is Shepard, but you may also know me by an online alias like Shepfax or LGBTrex. I am bisexual and nonbinary, and my pronouns are he/him or they/them. I was born in 1997 in West Lafeyette, Indiana as a fiery little Leo and the youngest to two older sisters. My mother's career brought my family to move often, and I have lived in Michigan, Arizona, and South Dakota before ending up where I am now in Colorado. Right now, my household is made up of me, my parents, and my fiancée. I, however, am the only heathen under this roof.

Along with reconstructing heathenry, I spend my free time birding, making art, collecting music, and playing video games. I plan to study Paleontology and am practicing fossil preparation and scientific illustration on my own for now.

Important posts on this blog

• What is heathenry?
  Starting point to understand what heathenry entails.

• Basics of Worship
  Explaining heathen means of worship at home.

• Ritual Praxis
  Step-by-step of my typical home worship session.

Other links I recommend checking out

• The Longship.
  This site is the closest thing we as heathens have to a crash course. There is so much information out there about pre-Christian European culture that it's easy for new folks to get overwhelmed, and my friend Sunnareda does an amazing job summarizing answers to the average beginner's questions.

• Dan McCoy's Norse mythology.
  Author of the popular beginner book The Viking Way, Dan McCoy has a big beautiful compilation of every little aspect of Norse mythology you could ever want to know.

• Runic inscription archive.
  For those of you interested in historic attestation of runes, this site is a compilation of basically every instance of rune carving we know of. The links in the left column take you to each one.