Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to be talking with Astrologer Demetra George about a recent

archaeological discovery of the earliest Greco-Roman woman that we know of who was a practicing

astrologer whose name was Haley Adora.

So hey Demetra, welcome.

I know this is a very exciting episode to be part of bringing the name of a woman

astrologer from the ancient time period into the modern era.

Yeah, so this is like a kind of a big discovery that we didn't know about that was actually

recently unearthed through archaeology where some researchers, three researchers, published

a paper in 2021 that I just discovered recently last month, were up till this point, up until

recently, even though we knew that there were women that practiced astrology in the ancient

world.

There weren't very many specific names that we knew of until many centuries later, but

now all of a sudden they've discovered the tombstone of a woman who lived in Egypt

in the second or third century CE and it says that she was actually a practicing astrologer.

I know that is so important for all of that contemporary women doing the astrology now

because over the years of teaching Hellemistic astrology and we would go on about valence

and ptolemy and the Czechoslovakia and all of the others and there would always be questions

in the audience.

Well, where are the women, weren't there any women astrologers, don't you have any of

their names?

But we'd have to say, sadly no, we don't have the names, we don't, we are not aware of

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