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I have been at home today. Solstice thinks its Christmas she wont get off my lap so little is getting done - oh well its nice to relax.

Black cats are thought by some to be ruled by the moon, the pupils of their eyes expanding and contracting with the waxing and waning of the moon.

Kiss the black cat, an' 'twill make ye fat; kiss the white one, 'twill make ye lean. - English Folklore
Thats where I went wrong!!!

Diarm likes Yeats - WB that is so I thought I would include his cat poem

The Cat and the Moon
The cat went here and there
and the moon spun round like a top,
and the nearest kin of the moon,
the creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
for, wander and wail as he would,
the pure cold light in the sky
troubled his animal blood.

Minnaloushe runs in the grass
lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
what better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
tired of that courtly fashion,
a new dance turn.

Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
from moonlit place to place,
the sacred moon overhead
has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
will pass from change to change,
and that from round to crescent,
from crescent to round they range?

Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
alone, important and wise,
and lifts to the changing moon
his changing eyes.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939