Sense of Soul - Astrology with Renowned Astrologer Susan Miller

Episode Date: December 4, 2023

Today on Sense of Soul Podcast we have the renowned American astrologer, Susan Miller . She is the author of many books, as well as her beautiful yearly calendar full of everything you need to stay up on all things astrology. Susan also regularly publishes horoscopes on her very popular website "Astrologyzone.com" as well as her two mobile apps, Astrologyzone Horoscopes and Moonlight Phases.  Susan has worn many hats, while being a loving mother, a grandmother and living with chronic illnesses which she’s had since she was child, spending much of her teen years in hospitals. But that didn’t stop Susan! For almost 30 years hundreds of million people have looked to Susan’s horoscopes. Besides her website and app, she uses social media sites like Instagram, Twitter, Discord and most platforms to engage her readers. Susan is recognized around the world for her work 'outside the box' into areas of business, finance, technology, lifestyle, culture, economy, etc. Follow her below and pick up her amazing calendar for 2024!! www.astrologyzone.com Follow Susan Miller on social media:  Twitter - @astrologyzone Instagram - @astrologyzone Facebook - Susan Miller’s Astrologyzone Discord - #Astrologyzone Threads - @astrologyzone NFT Susan Miller Stars Collection is Here! AstrologyZone.com/stars Please Rate and Review and give 5 stars! Visit Sense of Soul Podcast, www.senseofsoulpodcast.com    

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monthly circles, and much more. Now go grab your coffee, open your mind, heart, and soul. It's time to awaken. Today on Sense of Soul, we have American astrologer, the infamous Susan Miller. She is an author and the founder of astrologyzone.com. She is known for her comprehensive monthly horoscopes, which are available on her website and mobile apps. Over 20 plus years, millions of people have looked to Susan's horoscopes. Susan also has the most

gorgeous calendars that she releases each year. This calendar is written for every sign and provides a blueprint for you to follow so that you can live your best life with enthusiasm and confidence. It includes a forecast for each day highlighting important aspects and transits and provides users with important dates including retrograde periods and the full moon phases, daily horoscopes, monthly forecasts, and much more. Susan has also overcome many challenges in her life including a chronic illness where she spent most of her childhood in hospitals and she's joining us today to tell us about how she turned her pain into purpose. And I can't wait to share this episode with you.

Hi. Hi, Susan. This worked without a hitch. Hello. Where are you based? Where am I talking to you? I'm in Colorado. Ah, beautiful Colorado. I'm in New York City, Manhattan. Okay. All right. Well, finally, I'm so excited to finally connect this.

So wait, you grew up in hospitals. How come? Because you were sick? Birth effect, you know, internal bleeding, but they didn't know what it was. They didn't have the equipment they have now. And they didn't believe me. One thing I have found out, this is very interesting. Doctors are taught in med school to cut in half everything a woman says because they think we're overly dramatic. So if you constantly feel nobody's believing you, I finally called a doctor on that, my gut doctor. And he asked me to give a speech to all the students. So it was a whole medical class. And I said, I have a question.

Are you taught to cut in half what women say because we're overly dramatic? And one of them said, you figured that out? Did somebody tell you? I said, no, it's pretty obvious. I have experienced that. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And I know other women who have too.

And with my leg, they kept saying, you're spoiled. You don't want to go to school. Are you an only child? I said, no, I have a sister and she's fine. She wasn't born with this, but I would get a tax every year, once a year for six to eight weeks. Okay. And I couldn't move an inch in my bed I'd be in excruciating pain my mother would change the sheets the way they do in a hospital like

under you and gently pulling it out and then put putting the other one in and then the blood would get absorbed by the body and I'd be able to walk again. But when I was in the middle of an attack, I couldn't move at all. And no little child sits in their bed and doesn't get up and gets their crayons or their doll or play with their doll house or something. No, I was in bed. I couldn't move an inch. And once it happened in the summer at my grandmother's house,

my mother knew I didn't like the country. I'm a city girl. And I never liked going to the country. Now looking back, it was a beautiful experience. But at the time, I used to keep a little calendar, how long this is going to be until I get back to the city. But my mother would say, it's sweltering in the city.'m like I know and I want to be there to see it crazy and we were up there like eight weeks you know where we're at in New York in Ellenville New York yeah upstate yeah in the Catskills which overlooked the whole valley it was beautiful and my grandmother and grandfather had a beautiful house. They came from Germany.

So they were looking for something to kind of be reminiscent of Germany. Although they never spoke German. They only spoke English because they were afraid people would think they were sympathizers of Hitler. So they said, we are in America and we speak English and we will not teach the children German. We are American now. They finally did solve the mystery. When I was 14, they went in. And even my doctor, chief of staff, hospital for joint disease is part of Langone, NYU Langone. He said, oh, this is cartilage.ilage this is nothing and he got into the biggest operation of his life then I only had eight transfusions the next operation I died on the table and had 18

but altogether in my life I've had 40 transfusions yeah I mean I was in serious trouble, I was in serious trouble. So I was in the hospital 11 months straight. And my God, they had tourniqueted the leg so tight to save the leg and to save me. I mean, I had a brilliant doctor. He had been knighted by the Queen of Sweden. You know, he's written every textbook, but he had tourniqueted me so tightly. They knew I would lose the nerve from the knee down. So I woke up with a dropped foot. Then you're 14, we'll regrow the nerve along the old path. It'll take a lot of physical therapy, and I believe we can do it.

Although the interns working for him, the residents said, we've never seen that happen. But he was right. But I had to give up high school. I did homeschool. But then I went to New York University and actually graduated with honors. So I went from junior high. It was an unusual job. But I love your show.

Your show is about adversity and overcoming it. Right. Right. That illness was totally an aberration. And they think it might have been the medicine they gave my mother in her fifth month for terrible nausea. I think formaldehyde was in it. They said something happened in her fifth month when you make the circulatory system. It doesn't really matter. In my chart, my horoscope, it was meant to be. I was born with Uranus square the sun. Exact.

Okay. That's a pretty severe aspect. No, I think it was meant to be. My mother said some profound, uplifting things to me I mean she was so special I miss her every day it's I've it's been 11 years since she passed and I just miss her so much I miss my father too and that's even longer he died first I had great parents you know but there were other things I mean I'm going blind I have to get a needle in my eye every four weeks for 13 years now and you're supposed to get this in your 90s or something all the people in the waiting room

have little walkers and nurses you know you don't anybody young. But my sister and I have it and the whole family has it. It's so riddled in my Italian side of my family that they asked us all to come in and swab us. They're trying to find the gene that created it. They still don't know. It's called macular degeneration. They don't know what it is but what causes it and so many millions of people have it but the medicine helps it has to do with water in the eyes way in the back not the tears or anything that washes away your photo cells the doctor said look you're going to have to do this or you will never write another word and you will never see your children's faces again and I started to laugh I had been crying

and crying and crying and I was kind of sniffling I said you really know how to win an argument don't you okay you win I'll do it and I find you can do anything. You can get over any hump. You know, you just, just buck up and do it and don't think too much about it. Just do it. One thing that I said to myself, I don't hear anybody screaming in the office. Nobody's screaming in any of these treatment rooms. That's a good sign. Well, and us women, we are tough. I mean, we do the birth. And that was hard for me because of the leg internal bleeding.

I was in the hospital five weeks and then in a wheelchair six months. And they told me I could never have another baby again. And I said, two or none, but never one. I'll be back in three years. And I said, two or none, but never one. I'll be back in three years. And I had Diana. Yeah. So Chrissy and Diana, my two darling daughters who are grown now out of college in their own apartment, which I keep saying, you could sleep over. I said, mommy, we have our own bed. We have our own bed. Like, I'll put chocolates on the pillow. I just upgraded your TV.

You have Apple TV in there, too. And Martha Stewart sheets. Ralph Lauren, like it. They, no. But they have little babies, and they'll sleep over and get bigger. Yeah, you can look forward to that you're just gonna have to be more guided by your third eye yes luckily i can see close i can see the screen everything else this eye is pretty much gone i can get around i can do things you

just say look i don't want to give up my website. It's 28 years old this December. Astrology's out. I've put so much into it. And I'm redoing the site right now. We start on Monday having our first meeting. It'll take six months because there's a lot of content in there that people don't know is in there. And the creative director said, let's make it easier for people. I really like this company. And I need a company, not just one person.

I need, I need a lot. I need engineers to do the backend and I need the creatives. I need a navigation specialist. There are people who, you know, I have two apps on the Apple app store and also two apps on Google play. Just put in Susan Miller. They both come up. They're both different. You seem like you're very creative. To me, I told my children, if you are creative and you could say, I wrote that or I made that, it's the greatest satisfaction

in the whole world. It's bigger than money. It's bigger than anything. I agree. The act of creation is so special. And you learn about yourself through what you're writing or making or painting. I just said that this morning. It's fun. You know, I also do my calendar. Did we send you a calendar yet? You know what? Donna just got my address and she's sending it to me.

Oh, yes. I mean, well, they'll come out of our office here. When it goes on press, it takes two weeks to dry because I use such rich inks and porous paper. Oh, my gosh. It's beautiful. It's just beautiful. I am a wonderful French artist, and I write every word so you can trust it. They're $26.99. They are expensive, but people love them because you can see what's coming. 365 days. Next year's 66. You have to edit that. Yeah. Next year's leap year. Well, my dad's mom, he was born on leap year.

My grandmother, like she died. Yeah. You know, actually my daughter's a Pisces as well. She was born on leap year. My grandmother, like she died. Yeah. You know, actually my daughter's a Pisces as well. She was born on 222-99. Wait, what day? February 22nd? 99. My daughter's born February 26th. She had her son Otis on February 26th and my other daughter had little Oliver on February 25th I love the little Pisces me other is Aries what's on are you I'm a Taurus uh-huh this is your big emerald year that's what I keep hearing cycle where you begin something new and it pays you dividends for 12 years because that's the cycle okay well, well, I better get it finished. Yeah, well, you have until May 25th of next year before it ends. You have a lot of time.

All the little Tauruses and Scorpios, Aquarians, and Leos have had a hard time. But Uranus has been in the wrong place. And Uranus is the planet of things unexpected. So they've been hit with news like manhole covers blowing up every time they turn this way. Something happens over here. They turn that way. Something happens over here. And these are fixed signs that want things desperately to stay.

But Uranus is teaching the fixed signs, the value of agility and resourcefulness, and at times the necessity to move on a dime quickly. My heart goes out to them because every month I have to write and I write a lot. I write 38,000 words a month divided by 12 signs. And I'm very detailed, but also very friendly. It's not encyclopedic. Although if I say this and this is coming up, I say why it's coming up and how you can take advantage of it. And I even give alternate outcomes. If you read astrology, the monthlies have put me on the map. That's why I have 13 million unique readers a year on that. That doesn't include the apps.

They talk about engagement. They could tell that easily. And I had 60 million engagements. Now, my new one, Moonlight, phases, I really took a big risk. For many years, astrologers have known that you shouldn't do anything important when the moon is void, of course. But that sounds like a disease. It sounds scary. You used to have to look on the internet and at GMT time, Greenwich Mean Time, to try to figure out when the moon was void of course what does it mean the beautiful

moon puts on her white gown and her long white gloves and receives the other eight planets plus her partner the sun now she could be fighting with them she could say no no you're all wrong about that particular concept and she could be you know disagreeing or square she could say oh we have a problem we have to figure it out or she could be chummy with them it doesn't matter as long as she is talking to other planets now she goes in and out of being void sometimes while you're sleeping sometimes the whole day but you don't want to do something important like have a big interview okay or get married or close on a house you know things like that wow and now we have gps so my apps both have gps built in

so when you go to paris it will follow you and give you accurate information but I had to teach my entire 10 person team on the app it's the app company that I chose the app team in Santa Monica California I had to teach them this concept and then when I got to the artwork I went to Isaac Zanou who is French I-Z-A-K he's on Instagram you can look him up that Isaac I need I need a moon, a darling moon. He sends me Nazca. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. She has to have little eyelashes, curly eyelashes, a rosebud little mouth, little pink cheeks, like sweet, charming, soft, not scary.

And he says, Suzanne, I understand. I love working with artists. I used to be an agent for commercial photographers. And I would estimate layouts for ads. And I rose to the top of my profession. But it was through that work that art directors got to know me. When I took Saatchi and Saatchi out to lunch, because we had a beautiful Cheerios shot with splashing milk and Cheerios dancing in the air as the milk is going into the bowl. The art creative director VP said to me, my wife would love you. I said, I would

love her. What did she do? He said, she is creative director of Warner Books. You should get to know her. So I went up to Time Inc. That was my first job at a college, Time Incorporated. I worked on Life Magazine just before it died. I loved Life Magazine. And I met Jackie and we are still friends. And she is the one who one day said to me, I have a feeling about you.

I want you on our website. We're creating a website, Pathfinder. It was before AOL. It was pre-AOL. It was 1995. She said, would you like to have a column? I said, I want a whole website. I will create it and I will license it exclusively to timing. When they got involved with AOL, I had to leave after three years and no one was paying for content. And I had two kids and a husband who was frequently unemployed. But Apple intervened and made the introduction to InfoSeek,

which a month later became the Walt Disney Company. So I was on the Walt Disney website called go.com ABC News for another three years. And then I was ready to jump off a cliff and do it myself. You know, I had never sold pieces of my company, never got venture capital. I always did it by bootstrapping. And to me, that's the way to do it. You're committed to something and you want it the best it can be. And the day before 9-11, September 10th, I went on my own servers. That was a big week for many people. It was.

I feel like I've heard that before from other people. Well, you know what was happening. There was an eclipse that year. See how eclipses work. They're the most powerful thing in astrology possible. And there was an eclipse on the 4th of July. But nothing happened on the 4th of July. So what you have to do in that case, there are three qualifiers.

You look to see if Saturn is going on the degrees of that eclipse, moving along the pattern. But Saturn was too far away. Well, then you have to look for Mars. Is he going along the same path or in opposition, directly opposite? He was. The week of September 8th, he was locked in in the perfect position. And I said, I don't like this because it will affect the country. And I was in L.A. when it happened.

I was visiting and I had the news on that morning. And nobody will ever forget where they were, what they were doing on 9-11. But, you know, let's bring it to every 19 years, and eclipse repeats. We had one in 2020 on July 4. And again, nothing happened. So I looked to see where Saturn was, it was too far away. I looked where Mars was too far away. I said, Well, there's only one more qualifier, the sun, and it has to be an opposition that would make it January 4th, plus or minus four days, January 6th. That was triggered by the July 4th eclipse. So they were both painful days in our history. So I hope we won't have any more. And we're not going to have any more eclipses on the 4th of July until, well, it was 2020.

So you add 19 years, 1939. So that's quite a ways away. Wow. So, yeah. You know, it's at least if you're aware, though, right? You can maybe even get into the right mindset. Well, hopefully we can stop these things, you know? Okay. But an eclipse will always show a weak link.

And then the FBI says lone wolves are a weak link in this country. Insurrection from within, it will show you what you have to fix. The universe wants you to be successful. Every single aspect I look at, even the painful ones, are meant to make you stronger. I was born with something bad

that they had to correct or I would die. And I had to go through it, you know, after that big operation where I gave up school for two and a half years and did homeschool, but I did all my Regents exams, SATs, all that stuff at home with the teacher watching me, timing it, you know, just like in school, you you know many people with a bad chart have much more energy when you have bad aspects it gives tremendous energy the universe gives you the tools to work with it it doesn't just give you the problem people with tough

aspects have tons of energy and you learn determination and your inner strength yeah and uh you know so there's always a purpose and i mean sometimes things are devastating when a girl finds out her husband's been cheating i can't think of anything worse i never had that but that has to be devastating especially if you've lived together a long time or married, have children, whatever. It's it's tough, but it's always better to know the truth than not know the truth. You can't live in a fantasy because it only gets worse. So eclipses bring to the surface what you need to know. It also does something else.

I always think of God looking down at us in heaven, you know, and there's Mary in a job. She's never gotten a raise. This girl works so hard and she's being taken advantage of. She doesn't ask for a raise. She's a little shy about that. She needs a job. So God says, okay, I got to help Mary. I'm going to give the company a hard time. They're going to lose a couple of good clients and they're going to fire her. Now she goes home.

She's crying. Oh, she thinks it's the end of the world. then she gets a job double her salary just a month later because she's an asset and everybody knows she is she doesn't even need references she can get them from the clients because everybody people know your work they just know if you're a hard worker if you're a smart worker if you're a good communicator it's these things are obvious if you're present and eager and energetic I always think energy attracts energy it had to happen with me when time inc said you're done I mean AOL is coming in and we have no control over the our website anymore well they kicked gave me a kick in the pants. Then I went to Disney. But then when Michael Eisner said, the internet is a fad, and we shouldn't be in this business.

Oh, this was 2001. In those cases, I do pray. And I pray to God for a direction. I always pray for a direction, not for him to fix it, but to give me some clues. And he usually gives me the clues within 24 hours. And that day I was praying. I had a six-year-old website, all that hard work. And believe me, the beginning of the internet is like the beginning of AI. Wild West, you know, people, no laws, people stealing each other's content. It was terrible. It was like being on a bucking bronco. But I love the internet and I believed

in it. And when I opened my eyes and, you know, Disney was not going to renew my contract by September 10th, I didn't know what to do. I said my prayers, I opened my eyes and on the coffee table, which usually is crowded with books and flowers, was only the New York Times. And I looked down and it said Stephen King making a fortune. And then I had to turn the paper over because it was right on the fold in ebooks and I kind of laughed and I thought I could do better than Stephen King so I called Warner Books because they were my publisher would you like to do an ebook with me and they're like oh yeah no no now they would never say that now but in 2001 they said no and I said well I had heard on the street. And believe me,

anything you hear on the street is very accurate. The little street talk, I said, well, I hear Barnes and Noble really into that. And I talked to them. Oh, sure. Absolutely. You have our blessing because you know, my contract said I had to give them rights of first refusal so I call up Barnes and Noble and I said to the operator I don't know who to ask for she said I'll put you through to the CEO Mr. Regio and he listens to me and he says Susan yes we are interested in ebook very much so I well, I was calling to see if I could have an appointment. He said, you live in Manhattan, don't you? I said, yes. I was surprised he knew. He said, no, we've been hearing about you. Can you come right now? I mean, right now. I mean, put on a dress. Yes, I can come right now. And I walked out with a five book contract

and it saved astrology zone. I'm telling you, you look at your chart, but you also pray. I believe in prayer. I do. There was a reporter who was always kind to me in the press. She called me one day. She said, we've been bought out. Everybody's lost their job. Can I work for you? I would like to, I know astrology, I would like to help you write some of your app. You know, I have 365 days in a year plus 12 signs. So I said, well, you are a reporter, let's try you out. Well, the whole team said, she can't write her way out of a paper bag. This is not working. But she needs a job. And she's's a cancer and she has horses and bees she lives in atlanta and she makes honey and the bees won't have any food either i have to help her susan

she can't write so now my then editor i had a different editor in those days she calls me up what are you going to tell her that she's not getting the job? Why are you hesitating? I'm like, I feel bad. Let me think some more. So I pray. And I swear, I hear a voice over my head. Molly's not a writer. She's a brilliant editor. I call her up. I said, do you know how to edit? She said, I've edited for 20 years. Would you like to work with me as an editor? Sure. I'm telling you, he always answers me. He gives me the right answers, too.

I am a deeply religious Catholic, so I'll admit to it right away. I'm a recovering Catholic. As much as me, you see the beauty in people. You see the, I mean, the nurses really cared whether I lived or died when I was 14. It was a night when things could have gone either way three nights after the operation. And my doctor came in at two o'clock in the morning and I shared my room with two other patients it was big in those days big and they had a curtain around me and a bare bowl not not fluorescent or anything was just kind of prehistoric right and and the nurse was sitting next to me because I had hepatitis a and they were, they were trying to cool me off.

I had gotten it from the blood and they didn't know how to do blood in those days. So she's putting ice cubes all over me and my teeth are chattering and I'm laughing. She was a black girl had the most beautiful smile. I mean, those teeth, she could have done a Colgate commercial.

It was beautiful smile. And she was laughing. And I mean, she could have done a Colgate commercial. It was beautiful smile. And she was laughing. And I said, Oh, I think I'm gonna get pneumonia from this. This is not a good idea. She said, I know. Let's use more ice. And my doctor comes in with a resident. And they said, this is so and so he's going to sit and take your blood pressure every 15 minutes. And if it doesn't fall in an hour, we're going to have to go downstairs. This doesn't sound good. In the middle of the night, that's where the operating room is.

Now I'm wondering, and when he's walking almost to the door, I said, Dr. Frankel, what are my chances? He said, 70-30. And I was afraid to ask him which way right he later told me he thought he was gonna have to bring me downstairs so I was trying to reach the phone and the bars were up and I couldn't the nurse she said are you trying to call your mom I said well it's the middle of the night. Now it's 2.30.

And she's been so worried about me anyway. And maybe I won't have to go. Would you call her for me if I have to go? She said, absolutely. So I gave her the number. She wrote it down. I said, while you're in, because she was looking for a pen, give me my rosary beads, please.

She hands them to me. And I started saying the rosary beads please she hands them to me and I started saying the rosary and the nurse must have known something was going on and they had a lot of nurses on that night a Jewish nurse comes in then she leaves an Irish nurse an Asian nurse there were just all different nationalities, very New York. But because of that bare bulb, it was like Shara Skiro, as if they were lit from within with a black background because it was night. And they were praying for me. And when I did each section of the rosary, then they would change. And I saw beauty that night in those faces that I will never forget.

And it was so long ago. I was 14 years old. But I thought society has it all wrong, what they think is beautiful. These nurses are beautiful. They really cared if I lived or died or whatever happened to me. So then the doctor comes in after all of this, and he says, what are you doing? I said, well, I was praying. He said, you have perfect blood pressure.

Well, I've never seen this drop so precipitously perfectly. I never had high blood pressure. I mean, I weighed about 90 pounds. I mean, I was not high blood pressure. Nobody in my family has high blood pressure. But after that operation, the veins weren't working right and the arteries and my leg was swelling like incredibly. And he said, Susan, we're not going to have to go downstairs, whatever you're doing, keep it up because you're improving. You're getting well. I'm like, oh my goodness. I just witnessed a miracle, But it was those nurses. Their love for me helped me. Everybody needs to feel that somebody cares in this world. No, I knew my doctor cared.

I knew my parents cared. But those were strangers. And they cared. And that meant so much to me. I could see it in their face. And that night stays with me forever. It was life- forever. It was life changing. It was.

There's beauty in every face of every person you meet. There really is. And I always think of people like a mathematical equation, like in chemistry. When you put chemicals together, you get a different product. And so everybody brings out different sides of you yeah right yeah I think so and and some people you just feel like it's oil and water but I learned from the readers who complained on Twitter particularly we had three of them say oh Susan's not writing her forecast like of course I. And I'm killing myself and this is hurting me.

And then one of them says, because they're writing to each other on my account. Yeah. Having a whole conversation. They're saying the real Susan used to give little anecdotes. I thought, Oh my gosh, they like that. Oh, I was always afraid to do that but they're liking and the other ones say yeah and I'm like whoa so you really can learn from your critics you can we have a little thing around here the reader is never crazy if they say something that seems off the charts I remember

when I was at Disney, they were writing, is Susan on vacation? She's writing so short. And I had killed myself. Disney had forgotten to put the word continued or a little arrow or a button. They left it off on that one month. I said, look, see, the reader's not crazy. They think that's all I wrote. There's so much more on the next page. So they fixed it right away because the letters were coming in fast and we read all of them. So do you get letters too? Do you have some help? I have an assistant who reads them for me. I can't tell you. They mean so much to me when someone comments. I just, I appreciate it so very much. Me too. It's, we don't know, you know, it's almost like Johnny Appleseed throwing seeds over

the fence. You don't know if they're going to take root and make a tree or if people will like them and just walk over them. I think of, you know, I'm having a conversation with you and I'm learning so much. So it's a part of my journey too. And so sometimes I forget that other people are going to hear this in some way. You know, I get into this like sense of soul zone. And sometimes I think about like one or two people like, oh, I need to make sure that so-and-so hears this. This is going to be great for them. And so I only think of like one or two people like, Ooh, I need to make sure that so-and-so hears this, this is going to be great for them. And I, and so I only think of like one person.

And then I think it was someone one time had said, but can you imagine Shanna, if you were actually physically speaking to who was listening? I mean, you would need an auditorium, right? You would need a Coliseum, you know, in some places. And I was like, Oh shit need an auditorium, right? You would need a coliseum, you know, in some places. And I was like, oh shit. You're like, that freaked me out like so bad. But that's what we have now. Right. Yeah. Well, you know, that's funny. You should say that because when I was at Time Inc and they told me my numbers were, were moving up so quickly, mainly because Yahoo had sites we love and can't Live Without and Newsweek was writing special. So people were finding out. I had keyboard fright.

I was like, these people are reading this. But then you just have to get over that. Yes. And get back to why. Right. Get back to the intention. I'm just saying, I'm me. Yes. And get back to why. Right. Get back to. I'm just saying I'm me. I'm a normal person.

And I always feel if it's something's interesting to me, it might be interesting to you, too. We have many common experiences. I think women in general learn from each other. How many times has your best friend said, oh, I had it. I was horrible today at the office. My boss called me and tell me everything. He called you in. And then what did he say?

He said, close the door. Oh, my God. And then I keep standing you every little detail. And then what did you say? And we learn from each other. We don't realize we are, but we are. When our friend has our identity stolen, we say, hmm, and how did she fix that? And what steps did she take? And how did she safeguard things in the future? We learn from each other. You're constantly learning.

I mean, I've just been locked out of twitter for a month my favorite platform i have 520 000 locked out they keep saying we don't know who you are but i think we're getting a little breakthrough although this afternoon it said you tried your password three times well i know my password but the hacker changed my password changed my phone number changed everything yet they charged me to keep my check marks so they're billing me can't they call the billing department figure out who I am I'm on Facebook uh Instagram threads discord and and Twitter I'm on all of them they're all a little different they're all a lot of fun my assistant helps me i give her the picture i say what i want to say today what's

interesting about it on all my social media i put it on all of it you know so they could see it sometimes i just talk about the new moon just happened, and how you can use it because these you have to partner with astrology. It's not that this is definitely going to happen. If you stay in the house, lock the door, pull down the shades, nothing will happen. Time stands still. I think that we've proved that with COVID. So you know, I'll give you certain when the window opens for great opportunity, but it's up to you to make a couple of phone calls or tell some friends or if you're looking for an apartment, take a look at what's out there. Because I know when you're going to hit it and when it's just going to be frustrating and i want to lower your frustration and use your time well yeah like for example for taurus all the seeds you're planting now will come up in your garden after jupiter leaves into the second gestation is wealth. So you will see results from the seeds you're planting

now. They might be big ones because it needs more thinking from the other. Well, I'm writing a book right now. So. Oh, well, there you go. And it's going into Gemini and Gemini is the sign of writing. It is the scribe. Yeah. I've been writing, but you know, I've been making actually in my schedule. I have now. I used to interview three times a week. Now I've cut it down to two because I need more time to, you know, to do this.

To write. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm excited about that. And so it's amazing that, you know, it all is in my sign. And you have so much more time all the way to the end of May. Yeah. Okay.

So do you hope to come out with that? So would it be wise for me to even have a date? Yes. You're single now. Oh, no, not that kind of date. You know, I'm not single. A date for like my book, you know, should I have a date? Oh, I love, I'd love it to be finished by next May. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Anytime when you're finished and you've shown it to your editor and editors are like a conductor with a first violinist yeah they help make it better they'll say oh flesh this out a little more i think you talked too much about this but tighten this up they're great really a wonderful editor can help when you're ready i want you to call me and donna my publicist will give you the number and i will give you the best publication date. You don't want to do it with Mercury retrograde. You know, because I keep on having these revelations of more and I'm like, this is never going to end because it's more.

So it came to me in a dream in the middle of the night. I woke up and it's a trilogy. It's not, I don't have to have it all finished in one book. I have enough for one book. So, and it's going to be the triple goddess because it's on the goddess Sophia, Christian goddess that was hidden and buried in the Nagamati. So it's a lot of reading and research. I can tell years. I mean, but you know, most of it was through my experiences. It was very divine. So yeah, so it turned into the triple goddess, which was a huge part of my understanding of the moon and part of my book, my book. So, I mean, I'm moving into my crone. And as I move into my crone phase, I've connected with a part of the moon that I, I never really cared for.

If there was a new moon or something like that, or maiden moon or crone moon, anything, I just, I always knew it because the energy would be weird and I'd get to the full moon and I'd be like, yes, like hear me roar. When is the crone moon? I've never heard the crone. So the crone is the waxing moon and the maiden moon is the wanting moon. One goes this way, one goes that way. Yeah, but in astrology, new moons are so powerful. And the new moon eclipse is even more powerful.

But what's interesting, I had wrote about the new moon sitting here on my phone and I don't know how it opened to this page because this was in January of 2022. Let me see if it speaks to you because it's sitting here. It says, the sun had only just began to rise in the east. As I looked to the sky, I saw her curved and slender, the new moon. My heart longed for the full moon, how I love her energy. I sat longer than I would on a cold winter morning, becoming aware of my breath that I could see from the cold. Again, I stared up at the splinter in the sky, wondering why is it that she hides? And to my surprise, she spoke. Seeker, she said, look beyond what the eyes can see.

You cannot always see your breath, but you know it is there. She reminded me that my thoughts are coming from my own perspective. I'm only seeing from one side of a bigger picture. She challenged what I've learned throughout my journey about trust and faith. Although you cannot see in the mirror, your maiden or mother goddess, she is still within you. I humbly closed my eyes open to experience her unknown energy and suddenly divine wisdom appeared and revealed herself.

I felt the love of my divine feminine that I had been longing for and saw that she is one and she is whole. That is so poetic. But it was, it was a moment that I had with the moon. I was just, you know, I have,

I have adult children now and still I see glimpses of my maiden self of my younger version that curved. That's what you don't know when you're younger how you'll feel when you're older you think oh you'll feel so much different a lot of you is still the same you no matter how old you get no matter how old it was such wisdom but that's what comes with the crone moon too be the mature woman right yes mythology has always been mean to the crown if you look at the definition it literally says hag yeah my grandmothers were my i mean the most wisest right i mean so i've embraced the wisdom that comes with and living into this phase and

my period's all screwed up i only have like one a year and my daughter's about to start her period. I'm about to start. How old are your children now? 26 to 11. Oh, wow. You have a lot of children. I have a kid in every season.

Well, that's lucky. I have them all together. Yeah. They told me I had pushed the envelope way too far. But I'm so grateful. My daughters are 12 years apart, but they're like best friends. So sweet. Yeah.

But that's because of you. That's because of you. I think the parents have an enormous influence on their children. Having a kid in every season, I mean, I have a cancer. You did this perfectly. This is like done on a spreadsheet. Well, you know, because they've been my greatest teachers, Susan. They have been the greatest teachers my children have in every way.

Every single one of them have taught me so much along my journey. Yes, we learn from our children. We learn from their questions. We learn from their observations. Little kids can cut through the clutter. It's amazing what they say to you and they make you think yeah I believe we're all here to help each other make sense of this world we're in and help each other and show love and kindness to people and you, it can really help someone so much. Just even smiling and saying hi, you know, to the person you're buying your coffee from in the morning or anything.

Just just warmth. And I often, you know, people tell me things. So I come back to them. I said, did you find that apartment or what happened with your mom in ICU? I'm on Discord. a little bit of a learning curve but I have a audio so people can hear me and I can hear them on discord every other Sunday every two weeks and we put it up a little sign at five o'clock eastern time and people can ask questions but they're starting to get to know each other. It was funny because I was writing Astrology Zone and I have the 38,000 words to write.

I said, tonight, I have to keep it a little shorter. Let's do emergency questions first. Well, they were emergencies. And this one lady said, I'm in a situation where there's domestic violence and I'm scared and I don't know what to do. And I live in Florida. And I looked at the chart and I said, I know this sounds weird, but it looks like your partner or the person who's doing this is in law enforcement. She said, absolutely. And I was like, like oh god this is even worse than I thought oh no and I said you need to reach out to authorities there has to be a hotline it has to be

social workers can help you immediately the other readers immediately got on google there must have been four girls giving her phone numbers in the city she lives in and it was a city i didn't recognize in flood it was a unusual city and they went to that and i said tonight we became a real community because all of us helped that lady that's what you wish for you hope yes i want the readers to know each other and help each other and they can give their opinion then i'll look at the chart and i'll say i'll add something i'm seeing something here that might change her decision or something you know whatever it is you know we had several people who had emergencies and they weren't making them up what is your

discord call my server is just Astrology Zone. That's my name for everything. Okay, well, that makes sense. I think for many Susan Millers, my doctor said, I have 14 of you in my computer. Oh, wow. Everyone needs an invitation

and I'm going to put it on the front page of my website under appearances so that anybody can come in. We only have 5,500 you know it's a little group and not everybody comes to my sessions maybe about 30 or 40 people and we're experimenting with times because most of the people on discord are in Europe and some are in Australia yeah so because of the time zones I'm playing with different times. I know it's so hard. I have circles and I have someone from Norway and then even just here

West Coast goodness, but I'm in Colorado. So I feel like I'm usually like the neutral ground between everyone in the middle city in Coloradoado are you i'm close to denver i'm originally from new orleans oh yes it's the only city when you go to you come back five pounds heavier those beignets i dream about me too no one has them i of New Orleans. They're not even good if you do find them. You can find, though, at World Market, they usually carry the beignet mix from Cafe Du Monde. World Market? Yes, World Market or Cost Plus. Dot com.

Same thing. Yeah, that's true. Of course, nowadays you can buy it on Amazon, too. But beignet my i'm a very good cook you know what after my mother died i didn't know i was depressed because i was so functional yeah usually they say depressed people can't get out of bed but i was functioning but the flowers stopped coming in my house and i stopped cooking and after eight years my little one diana said mommy you never cook anymore I said oh I'm so

busy I'm writing you love to cook you made souffles you made different things I'm giving you a gift card to blue apron I said oh that's the box that give you everything yeah the recipe oh my god it changed my life and I she gave it to me in May 2020, just when the pandemic was beginning. It was Mother's Day. I have gotten it every week. And I eat better because of it. I have salmon. I have shrimp.

I have chicken. Yeah, and you don't have to cook for the whole family. So it's proportioned. And I'm eating tofu. And yeah, they give you enough for two. And then I bought these Pyrex dishes with that you can vacuum seal. Yeah. And they have a special little device.

And it's so fresh. And I can eat it the next day for lunch. And the salmon is out of this world. And I've learned so many techniques. My mom loves to cook. And she hadn't cooked really much since my dad passed. She felt she didn't. Well, I call it functional depression.

Mrs. Obama talks about that. She said she had felt it there for a while. And the flowers came back because there's a place across the street that sells the most beautiful flowers for like $15 a bunch. They just make me happy. I read somewhere that if you have flowers near you, your work, you'll be more productive. And I think they're right. You're happier. I'm going to buy myself flowers. You must buy yourself some flowers. You're so just full of positive energy. I've really enjoyed every minute.

Me too. Now you and I are friends. I have to meet you. And if you travel anywhere, maybe I can meet you in that city. Well, my daughter wants to go to New York so bad. So when I do. Oh, my gosh. Well, then a great dinner is waiting for you. We'll go out somewhere. I'll bring the venue. Okay.

So also tell us about your calendar. It's almost 2024. So everyone's looking to get a new calendar. People just love it so much dedicated readers who sign up for it and it helps me keep my expensive crack habit of astrology zone keeps the lights on you know i've always wanted it to be free because people who need it the most need it free we have some advertising people think you make millions in advertising you don't you make pennies you need other forms of income now my app you do have to pay $4.99 a month if you get the

upgraded version which is the best version you still get my monthly on both of it but you get much longer dailies much like i have all my essays and compatibility and all kinds of wonderful things and people can try for a month if they don't like it they can end it immediately and if they can't figure out how they write to us apple gave us the little five little steps and we just copy and paste them into the letter. And no, we help every reader. We read every letter. And that's also called Astrology Zone. It's Astrology Zone for our scopes. Yeah.

What's the other one? The other one is Moonlight Phases. But if they just type in Susan Miller, it comes up. Yeah. Oh, okay. Both of them come up. That's amazing. I love that.

In Apple and Google Play, we have both equal opportunity you know I I personally went on and pulled my chart from your website oh yes we have free it is like no other I've ever pulled okay and I'm writing all the interpretations I'm still writing the ascendant but I'm I'm collaborating for this yeah I mean I was so shocked you know yeah absolutely free I want to give as much as I can to people for free amazing this world is not only about money we need money to live and to stay healthy and get a doctor when we need it but it's not only about money it's about helping each other I would just want to bring out the creativity in my readers and help them generate the answer to their dilemma or take advantage of the great things

that are coming down the pipe, but they may not even notice is there. And I want to take that fruit off the tree. It's a guide. It's a guide. It's a guide it's a beautiful guide and and i was very so i mean so much information astrologyzone.com you can print from the website you can okay good easily i'm gonna do that and um and as i said we are tearing apart the site but i'll never go off the air we're going to stage it separately on a

separate server and then move it in after we test it and everything so that'll be happening right now until January okay my 28th year on the internet well you know what I started at the I started at the beginning in internet too my dad yeah he wanted me to go to school we had a family business and he made my brother and I go to school for computer and html and all that stuff and before they even had a way to like order online my dad I made him a website and you had to call they didn't even have program yet you had to call an. He was so successful because nobody else had this. The way the internet works is that information is zinging from Dallas to Denmark to London to Dubai. It's all over the place.

And the internet was having trouble holding the credit card information with all those things around. And information kept falling out. And it was years until they got it right. I would go on TV and the producers would say, don't use the word URL. I'm like, why? People don't know what it is. I said, they'll never know if I don't use it. No, you're not allowed.

So I couldn't even tell them I had a site. You know, what's so funny is I was so like, like telling my dad, I'm like, this is not my jam. So, but I was so creative, you know? And so I would make it all just like, you know, and, and I never, like, I remember going to him at one point and saying, listen, I don't want to sell sports equipment my whole life he's like are you kidding me you bring your kids to work like this is the best job ever and I'm like yeah but it doesn't feed my

soul it's just yeah I think I'm destined to do more and I he'd be so proud you know today I use all the things they ever taught me, everything in business, you know,

everything he made me do. It's kind of sense of soul in some way. And so it was all purposeful. Well, my father had an Italian specialty grocery store over the store in the middle of Manhattan on 74th and 75th. We lived upstairs in a brownstone. Wow.

And one day I'm sitting on a milk box, a wooden box. And this very handsome salesman comes in with a clipboard. He said, sir, I need the key to your cellar. And my father says, oh, of course, here it is. You know, he knew who he was. I said, why would that man go with his nice suit into your cellar daddy he said oh he's from the beer company he's checking my inventory and he'll tell me how much I have to order today so the man comes up and he says here you are you know Mr. Trentacasa here it is and actually we have a new product and he holds it up and he said it would look

just perfect eye level in that case. My father has a little toothpick, white coat, a little newsboy cap. Adorable. My clock is my Tetley T clock. Beautiful old clock. Beautiful Tetley tea. It's losing five minutes every hour. Salesman looked confused. Well, sure, we don't have a clock. Oh, I'm so sorry. Well, as you see, I don't have any room. You know, there's no empty space here a week later I come in the studio there's a Rheingold beer cloth there's the product and I learned how two hands wash each other and help each other my father laughed he said oh you noticed that I'm like yeah oh my gosh my dad was very similar to that kind of wisdom, right? You just learn from just watching, you know, osmosis, you know. And it sounds like your father and my father had very good work ethic, really hard workers. And that seeps into you and your children, you know.

But, you know, in my ancestry, what I discovered was there always was a store. This is like generation after generation. But I never saw that it was a woman's. So I'm owning that now because it can be. And I do have that in me. So in my mom's family, being from New Orleans, you know, we're all mothers. I thought that I was just to be a mother. And I am a mother for sure, but I can be

both. So yes, of course. Wonderful. Oh, you're fascinating. I can be with you on a desert island and never know. I know about you. I love your energy. I hope this is not the last time we speak. Oh, no, We'll meet again. Oh, my God. You're so fun. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for spending time with me.

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