Ann E. Combs wanted to be a ballerina, but the stars had other plans for this Seattle native.
The longtime astrology reader and writer found in her teens that her true calling was in deciphering the meaning of the astrological signs.
Combs has just published a new book, Astrology and Your Lucky Star. She has been doing astrological readings for more than 30 years, has written numerous articles for spiritual publications, and was the volunteer astrologer for three years at the Dream Maker’s Charity Ball at Virginia Mason Hospital.
For more than two years, she has prepared the Horoscope for the Queen Anne & Magnolia News, which has gained quite a following.
Astrological readings have been a life-long endeavor for Combs. She began giving readings at the ripe old age of 16.
“Readings were fun and I never charged for them,” Combs said. “I was destined for a career in ballet.”
Born in Seattle, Combs, at the age of 16, was awarded a Ford Foundation Scholarship to study ballet in New York City. But she quickly found New York not quite to her liking.
”New York just didn’t feel right… as soon as I got off the train someone tried to steal my luggage”, she said.
Combs has always considered herself a spiritual person and upon her return to Seattle she began to seek her own road to spirituality.
”I eventually started attending University Congregational Church, I believed in their philosophy and active good works,” Combs said. “I also found myself surrounded by people interested in astrology who gave me books which I read and studied …..”
Combs supported herself by teaching ballet through the Seattle and Bellevue Parks Department. However, as she gained knowledge and experience with astrology, it became clear that her calling in astrological readings. By the age of 18, Combs had already garnered an international reputation as an astrological reader.
She also worked at Virginia Mason Hospital for a number of years. During that time, prestigious medical personnel began to ask her to do their readings….these people of practicality and science had questions that science couldn’t answer: why did patients bleed more, why did the death rate rise and why did patient’s behavior become more erratic during cycles of the full moon?
So for readers who may be skeptical and become alarmed to learn that medical people seek out an astrologer to do their readings, consider Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act I, Scene V …..Hamlet to the very practical, logical Horatio “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Combs said she is not on a mission to convince skeptics of the credibility of astrology.
”I don’t seek people out, they come to me…I am a professional and my readings are based on years of study and experience…. the accuracy of a reading is dependent on a client’s truthfulness and preciseness in providing me with their date, month, year, hour and place of birth….my clients have told me after a reading that it was so accurate as to be scary.”