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Katie Ness

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October 11

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Katie Ness is a multi-genre writer, historian-in-progress, and yoga instructor specialising in folklore and spirituality, holding a BA Honours in Fine Art from UCLAN, Level 4 certifications in Prehistoric Art: From Paleolithic to the Iron Age, The History of Folklore, The Practice of Magic in Medieval Society and Death and Devotion: The Art of Death across the Middle Ages from Oxford University, and extensive expertise in Yoga history, Vedic philosophy, Tantra, Sanskrit and the Śākta Traditions from the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Her MA to become an Occult Historian & Folklorist is forthcoming.

As an Ayurvedic yoga instructor (Hatha & Nidra) and wellness educator specialising in women’s spirituality and health-- in particular Grief Yog
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“I call on your many names!
Inanna!
Asherah!
Ishtar!
Astarte!
Isis!
Aphrodite!
Great lady of the stars, sea and soil!!

From the Kopet Mountains to the Caspian Sea,
From my heart to the vault of the skies,
I am devoted to you in all languages and in all hearts,
And in all your names.
in all the rain soaked earth and in all the stars.
Asherah I cherish you,
My unbridled Queen of queens,
I bow to you,
I am bound to you,
Oh Sacred heart,
Great goddess of love and hate,
Of life and death, of passion and peace,
Of all the holy contradictions,
maiden of the ascension and descension,
of the looping serpent’s Ouroboros,
Guide me through my darkness,
So I may see the light.
So that I may rise from the fall,
With the wings of the dawn,
of your everlasting Arammu
Of your all-embracing Ahavah!

Excerpt from “Asherah: High Queen of Queens” - Featured in Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.”
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“And so my advice to you is this:

Explore the wilderness in your heart.

Love vastly.

Daydream constantly.

Make love genuinely.

Dance regularly.

Breathe deeply.

Be nonsensical.

Unravel your shining soul.

And enjoy every moment.”
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