Athena_Starwoman

Athena Starwoman

Athena Starwoman

Australian astrologer

Athena Starwoman (17 July 1945 – 16 December 2004), also known internationally as Miss Starwoman.[1][2]

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She was known as a media astrologer, as well as for her magazine columns and books, her radio and television appearances and had a phone and online astrology business

Born in Prahran, Victoria, to a housewife mother and father who was an engineer, her grandmother had been a psychic and mystic. After studying astrology in Los Angeles in the 1970s, she returned to Australia and wrote for The Daily Telegraph newspaper from 1978 and 1988, and also had a regular column in Woman's Day magazine.

During her final years, she divided her time between a luxury apartment at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast in Queensland and a US$3,000,000 apartment on the cruise liner The World, which she purchased after selling an apartment in New York's Trump Tower.[3] She was married to self help guru Dr. John Demartini. Starwoman died on 16 December 2004 from breast cancer.[4]

Publications (selected)

Title Year Published
Star Struck 1980
Glamazons (with Deborah Gray 2003
How To Turn Your Ex-Boyfriend Into A Toad 1996
Zodiac: Your Guide for the New Millinneum
Soulmates and the Zodiac 2003

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References

  1. [1]
    "Athena's $3m sea change was written in the stars". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 April 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Astrologer loses fight with cancer". Tweed Daily News.
  3. [3]
    "Astrology tycoon a mystery woman". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 December 2004.
  4. [4]
    "Astrologer loses fight with cancer". Daily Mercury.
  5. [5]
    "Books by Athena Starwoman". Goodreads.

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