Clare Martin was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and lived in Africa until she was eight years old. Educated in England, she worked for a number of different educational and government organisations in Oxford, London and abroad before building up her own business at home while her three children were young.

A change of direction occurred when she discovered astrology and became a student with the Faculty of Astrological Studies, gaining her Diploma in 1990. In the same year she started teaching the history of astrology to Faculty Diploma students, and she has been a London class tutor ever since, on both the Certificate and Diploma courses and at the Faculty’s annual Summer Schools in Oxford.

During the 1990s Clare studied with the Centre for Psychological Astrology and was a tutor for several years on the CPA’s one-year Introduction to Psychological Astrology course. While undertaking her CPA Diploma studies, she trained as a psychotherapist and gained a Masters degree in Integrative Psychotherapy. She works in London as a counsellor and as an astrological consultant, and has been a supervisor and lecturer at the CPA for several years.

In 2000 Clare was elected President of the Faculty of Astrological Studies. With a team of other Faculty tutors, she undertook a major restructuring and rewriting project, redesigning the Faculty’s courses and qualifications and using the latest technology to provide the Faculty’s international body of students with improved access to astrological education, up-to-date course material, one-to-one tuition and professional qualifications.