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Joanne's formal academic background includes a degree in anthropology from Hofstra University (’73), with minors in linguistics and psychology, and a completed year (’84) of graduate work in psychology at CUNY, Queens College, with particular emphasis on perception and learning. In high school, she studied astrology for a couple of years with Zoltan Mason in New York City. Eventually, a later interest in botany and herbs led her to medieval medical astrology, which rekindled her interest in studying astrology again, but with a focus on ancient astrology for the source of the ideas. For the last 15 years, as an independent scholar, her concentration has been on the Egyptian decans and the Egyptian roots of Hellenistic astrology.

She discovered the correct working of the Egyptian decan system, which had been misunderstood by Otto Neugebauer. She published my findings in “It’s About Time: Ancient Egyptian Cosmology” in Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Volume 31, 2003. A second paper which builds on my decan model and its implications, “Speculation on Special Sunlight and the Origins of the wSAw Hour,” was published in Apuntes de Egiptología Number 3, 2007, online at: http://www.ceae.unlugar.com/conman3.htm. An earlier version of that work was presented at the American Research Center in Egypt Annual meeting in Boston in 2005.

Her most recent paper, dealing with Pharaonic Egyptian contributions to Hellenistic astrology, “The Egyptian Origins of Planetary Hypsomata,” has just been published in Discussions in Egyptology Volume 64, 2006-2009. That paper makes the case that the astrological places of planetary exaltations very likely have roots in ancient Egyptian religion. It has been argued that the places of exaltation originated in Babylonian omen texts; however, the Egyptian material predates those omen texts by over a thousand years, suggesting that the Egyptian material was the source for the Babylonians.

Currently, she continues her research and writing.