An Afternoon With Susan Miller

In an age of TikTok astrology and party tricks, a legend reminds us that the stars are a path of service—not a fear tactic

Whenever I struggle with my own astrology practice, I return to the work of Susan Miller.

In an age of TikTok astrologers, where predictions have become party tricks and daily horoscopes are wielded as fear tactics to drive engagement, it’s easy to feel disillusioned. Sometimes, I want to throw in the towel.

In those moments, I think of Susan.

I think of the way she fondly recalls her mother studying the stars in the quiet hours of night. A mother who once warned her that sharing astrology publicly was a risk—that it might mean alienation.

Susan went on to become one of the most esteemed astrologers of our time, her work appearing everywhere from Vogue to The New York Times. But it’s not her fame or her precision that draws me in. It’s the way she cares for her readers. She sees herself as a translator for the planets, committed to making their movements accessible—so that life on Earth might feel just a little less chaotic.

I remember her once saying, over lunch, that she wouldn’t release…