Athena Starwoman

Australian astrologer

  • Media Astrologer
  • publisher
  • internet businesswoman
  • columnist
SpouseDr John Demartini (married;1995-2004)

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

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

Biography

Born in Prahran, Victoria, to a housewife mother and father who was an engineer, her grandmother had been a psychic and mystic, as well as her sister and nieces. 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. ^ "Athena's $3m sea change was written in the stars". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 April 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Astrologer loses fight with cancer". Tweed Daily News.
  3. ^ "Astrology tycoon a mystery woman". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 December 2004.
  4. ^ "Astrologer loses fight with cancer". Daily Mercury.
  5. ^ "Books by Athena Starwoman". Goodreads.

Further reading

  • Lockman, Darcy (14 May 2000). "A NIGHT OUT WITH: Athena Starwoman and Her Nieces; Triple Conjunction". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  • "Athena: a Heavenly Body at Home Among the Stars". The Age. 14 May 2000. p. 5. Retrieved 30 June 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • "The supernatural doesn't end on Halloween". CNN. 2 November 1996. Archived from the original on 24 January 2001. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
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