Susan Miller

In the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2013 is the Year of the Snake--and more specifically, the year of the water snake. This Sunday is the first day of the Chinese new year, and cosmetics companies are celebrating with some new makeup collections. There's a lot of lore and astrology linked to the celebration of the Chinese new year, so we asked fashion's go-to astrologer, Susan Miller, to help us figure out what it all means, and how beauty products exactly fit into the equation. (Stay with us here. There's actually a connection!)

Susan Miller is the mother of a fashion designer, has been lending her astrology skills to fashion glossies for years, and the whole fashion world seems generally obsessed with astrology for some reason. Thus, it was only a matter of time before she did a collaboration with an actual fashion brand. Calypso tapped Miller to collaborate on collection of cashmere sweaters that come in 13 colors, each of which Miller has linked to a color aura. Confused? So were we. So, we called Miller and asked her to explain exactly what a color aura is, and how it works on sweaters.