Athena Starwoman (17 July 1945 – 16 December 2004), also known internationally as Miss Starwoman. She was known as a media astrologer, as well as for her magazine columns and books, her radio and television appearance's and had a phone and online astrology business Born in

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, to a housewife mother and father who was an engineer, her grandmother had been a physic and mystic. After studying astrology in Los Angeles in the 1970s, she returned to Australia and wrote for

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newspaper from 1978 and 1988, and also had a regular column in

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magazine During her final years, she divided her time between a luxury apartment at

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on the

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and a US$3,000,000 apartment on the cruise liner

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, which she purchased after selling an apartment in

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. She was married to self help guru Dr. John Demartini. Starwoman died on 16 December 2004 from breast cancer.

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