The spirit of Barneys was alive in her look: flesh-toned flats, a rose-printed sheath, drop earrings peeking through her blowout. The reticence about her age enhances her Upper East Side grand-dame élan. (A fair guess would place it sometime in the nineteen-fifties.) Readers would have a field day if they could draw up her astrological chart, she explained. Miller does not disclose her age or birth date. He was a hard teacher, but the things you get with Saturn you never lose.” Saturn, she said, “is very similar to Balanchine. “If I was in the hospital when Louis was born,” she said, “I would tell his mother that her son would be very successful.” The Miller trunk looks like an haute school science project: space-blue on the exterior, with a circular aperture that reveals the inside, where orbs representing Saturn and Pluto hang.

Archivists passed her Vuitton’s birth information, and she drew up his chart. Miller was at the Madison Avenue space to give a talk, gratis, in connection with Louis Vuitton, which has installed a pop-up display called “200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries.” The company asked two hundred somebodies (including Miller) to design a trunk to mark the malletier’s second centennial. has audited her seven times, she said, without finding a single error. “I’m going to start a museum for taxpayers,” she said, “and I’m going to be the blockbuster exhibit.” There’s no truth to the rumors that Apple partially owns Astrology Zone, the Web site that Miller founded in 1995, where her monthly horoscopes draw 1.3 million unique readers.

The astrologer Susan Miller perched on a wooden cube in the basement of what used to be Barneys.

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