Joanna Watters was born and raised in the north of England but migrated south to Essex University in 1978, and graduated with a B.A. Honours in English and European Literature in 1981. Her original career plan, to teach junior school, went on hold as she returned to the north to nurse her mother through a terminal illness. This changed everything as she never did make it to teacher training college but moved to London in December 1984 to start afresh.
Having worked out her own Ascendant at the age of 7 Joanna finally sought out a place to study astrology seriously. She studied intensively with the The Company of Astrologers over the following six years, gained the Advanced certificate in Craft and Creativity of Astrology and became a tutor for the Company in 1990. Her studies, teaching and consulting work also triggered an interest in psychotherapy. She went into individual therapy with Jocelyn Chaplin, founder of The Serpent Institute , from 1987 1994 and teaches counseling skills to her astrological students as an essential part of the consultant's craft.
