Overview: Heathenry for the Solitary Practitioner offers solid, well-researched basic information to help you begin your Heathen journey - including key texts, historical context, rituals, the Gods, Runes, and everything else you’ll need for building your practice.

This book is intended for solitary wanderers. Whereas most books tend to focus on building strong kin and working in groups for worship and relationship-building, often leaving out those who wish to practice as individuals, this book aims to restore the balance, offering practical advice and guidance to those who work alone.

Verdict: In what is a most engaging, nay enthralling new prose Pagan Portals - Heathenry for the Solitary Practitioner, author Thea Prothero diligently, nay dutifully brings forth some astutely-driven and thoroughly well-researched information on Heathenry: a modern Pagan new religious movement (starting in the 1970s) that reconstructs the pre-Christian polytheistic beliefs of Germanic peoples in Northern Europe.

Albeit a brief overview, is what my notes on it proclaim, I slightly beg to differ as halfway through I was already locked into how Thea provides a distinctly affecting introduction combined with its history, lore and even practice.

Within these pages Thea brings forth info on its core beliefs, the cosmology, values, a primer on Deities (gods and goddesses), and ethics along with some contemporary rituals associated with the tradition. Inclusive of a guide to the Norse worldview and a discussion on the Runes, we learn Polytheism (where Heathens worship a pantheon of Germanic deities, with major figures including Odin, Thor, Frigg, and Freya), about Animism (a belief that the natural world — including trees, rivers, and stones — contains spirits), and that Reciprocity, Community and Ethics are always a way to positively emphasize ones existence and to live a good, honorable life.

About the Author - Thea is a Heathen and a pilgrim. She likes to think of herself as a Nemophilist, which means a haunter of woods. She spends most of her free time walking in the wildest remotest lands, and she loves the challenge of finding connection through nature to the divine. She writes prolifically, reads equally, has a passion for learning, taking photos, grow things, and spending time with her family. She works in education and lives in Southampton, UK.

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