Seax-Wica pairs its Saxon and Norse theming with a deliberately open and democratic structure, allowing self-initiation and non-secretive practice, which distinguishes it from the lineage-based Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions. It is a modern Wiccan tradition using Germanic divine names rather than a reconstruction of historic Anglo-Saxon heathenism, and it should be distinguished from Heathenry proper. The affirmation gives Seax-Wica its particular identity, honouring the divine pair under the names of Woden and Freya.
Seax-Wica should be distinguished clearly from modern reconstructionist Heathenry (also called Asatru, or, in some English-focused forms, Fyrn Sidu), which explicitly rejects the Wiccan ritual framework, the threefold law, the wheel of the year, and the God-and-Goddess theology, in favour of practices its adherents attempt to reconstruct from historical Norse and Anglo-Saxon sources, sagas, and archaeology. Where Heathenry presents itself as a revival of historically attested pre-Christian religion, Seax-Wica has always been transparent about being a twentieth-century Wiccan creation that borrows Germanic names and imagery rather than a reconstruction of how Anglo-Saxons actually worshipped, a distinction Buckland himself was careful to maintain in his writing.