I’m your friend, and if I see a bus coming at you, I have to push you out of the way."Ĭompared to the rest of the Conscious Life attendees, who meander through the hotel’s adjacent, bustling lobby on their way to the exhibit hall as we dine, Miller is a Wall Street analyst among Renaissance Faire cosplayers. Are you watching where you’re going? I can tell you that it’s probably not a good idea to bungee jump on a certain couple of days … But it’s up to you, maybe if you take care, it’ll be okay. And that’s where people get confused: I don’t know if you’re.
(True to form, we have to reschedule that breakfast meeting so she can meet with those fans - they’ve come to LA from overseas to hear her speak.) "It’s all my math, but if you don’t do anything, nothing will happen. "I have to have faith that I’m telling millions of people the right thing," she tells me over lunch at the hotel restaurant the afternoon after her Expo appearance. One could argue that the practical rationality she brings to an otherwise ambiguous practice is what makes her so successful. In fact, her approach is far more like that of an empathetic life coach than a psychic.
She’s quick to stress, in person and at every appearance she makes, that astrology is not fortune telling. The resulting readership is an often-rabid crowd that boasts VIPs like Gloria Vanderbilt, Rihanna stylist Adam Selman, and even will.i.am. At this point, her chatty, practical delivery is just as important as the forecasts themselves. Her horoscopes - not only those notoriously prolific monthly essays for her own website,, but now also for 10 other international fashion magazines, from Elle to Vogue Japan - offer intimate, personalized readings while still pulling millions of eyeballs. Much has been made over the past few years of the astrologer’s meteoric rise to fame, thanks to (among other things) her ardent fashion-world coterie and all the press that comes with it. Sometimes nothing happens, so you have to kind of run with it when you can." "You can’t pick when life is going to give you opportunities.
"But you know what the old is: ‘a change is as good as a rest,’" she says, her voice crinkling into an audible smile, the same way it does on stage when she’s telling one of her many autobiographical anecdotes. ‘Do me, do me!’ I feel like a mother with a lot of children, and they’re all tugging at my apron." "If I see a bus coming at you, I have to push you out of the way." "It’s just that I’m launching so much, and everybody wants me to do first. "I do have a lot of irons in the fire, but I’m disciplined," she tells me a few weeks later from the hospital (more on that later).
ASTROLOGY ZONE TV
With the launch of a brand-new online TV show and the ever-multiplying host of outlets on which she peddles her cosmic insight, Miller has become a self-styled internet celebrity and a personal adviser to millions of intensely dedicated online fans.
ASTROLOGY ZONE FOR FREE
They’ve all stayed behind in an attempt to connect with their idol, the celebrity astrologer whose public persona has become as much about the Susan Miller Mythos as her frequently uncanny predictions.Īttendees of the Conscious Life Expo paid $65 to hear Miller speak, but the bulk of the astrologer’s empire still rests on the 50,000-some-odd words she churns out every month for free - doggedly, some might say obsessively - meeting her readers where they are on social media. Together with her publicist and an expo handler carving the path, our royal cabal weaves slowly, delicately, shuffling our way through maybe 50 people, many of whom Susan attempts to stop and chat with (inviting several to join her the next morning for breakfast, a meal we’d already planned as our interview time). We’d spoken on the phone a few times before this, but within seconds of our meeting in person - with fans still trying to reach past her publicist to give her gifts and tell her just how much she means to them - Miller takes off her designer heels, clutches the crook of my arm like a prom date, and says, cheerfully, "Walk with me." She’s just finished a 90-minute lecture (or perhaps more accurately, a motivational speech) at the Conscious Life Expo, a three-day jamboree of workshops and lectures whose guests run the gamut from sound healers to ancient alien experts.
It’s a little after midday on a recent Saturday in Los Angeles, and I’m escorting the reigning queen of astrology past a veritable throng of adoring subjects.
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