In anticipation of the coming severe criticism of the Publisher, Translator and Editor of the book, we will immediately surrender to the authorities and admit that we fully share the statement of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia that astrology is a “false teaching”, which only due to a misunderstanding did not “come to decline with the discoveries of Copernicus” and, contrary to all logic, is still fooling the population, being “until now widespread in a number of capitalist countries.” In our country, even before the advent of the era of glasnost, astrology shyly managed to build illegal nests in the most desperate newspapers and magazines, where it usually hid in inconspicuous corners of the last page. And even today, many readers, noting the most unfavorable days of the month for themselves in some newspaper, are unlikely to suspect that they were “calculated” taking into account astrological data.