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Astrology For Cats
A humorous book for cat families. It offers an astrological guide to home and personal relationships under each zodiac sign. It gives advice to help cats make the right decisions for health, wealth, and happiness based on their character traits.
This was translated from German, 1991: "Astrologie Für Katzen". The great Anthea Bell has translated into English, countless children's books especially; from German, Danish, and French.
This was translated from German, 1991: "Astrologie Für Katzen". The great Anthea Bell has translated into English, countless children's books especially; from German, Danish, and French.
80 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1991
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September 12, 2023
The art is great. Fab time waster.
July 4, 2015
This is a humorous book with bug-eyed, caricature drawings for cat families. I consider it a joke book but positive cat literature appeals to me. Seven are my children, whom I love very dearly. Twelve, counting the precious faces with me in childhood. This was published in Germany in 1991: “Astrologie Für Katzen”. Anthea Bell has translated countless children's books; especially from German, Danish, and French. This little hardcover is brightly, very well organized into categories that are easy to skim.
Each zodiac sign is introduced with its symbol, character basics, element, compatible star signs, and date span. A longer astrological guide describes the home lifestyle and personal relationships of kitties born within those dates. Each birth sign gives advice, even if whimsically, to help make the right decisions for health, wealth, and happiness. In India, the zodiac is approached like a serious scientific process that is measurable. Those familiar with this discipline in depth, know that several factors effect our reading; such as time and place of birth mixing us with the ‘houses’ of other planets or signs. This is why rudimentary horoscopes, like those generalized traits or predictions published in newspapers, don’t completely ring true for many of us.
Felines, who gestate in only 2 ½ months, can be born any time of year. Personalities well known among cats overall likely play a role in this book’s descriptions. The expressive, action pictures certainly imply comedy rather than real fortunetelling or character assessing. This isn’t something I would keep as a reference nor read again but it is brief enough that I took in all the of signs’ descriptions from cover to cover. It made me smile in many places. I’m happy to give it to someone else, who will have fun with it for a lark too.
Each zodiac sign is introduced with its symbol, character basics, element, compatible star signs, and date span. A longer astrological guide describes the home lifestyle and personal relationships of kitties born within those dates. Each birth sign gives advice, even if whimsically, to help make the right decisions for health, wealth, and happiness. In India, the zodiac is approached like a serious scientific process that is measurable. Those familiar with this discipline in depth, know that several factors effect our reading; such as time and place of birth mixing us with the ‘houses’ of other planets or signs. This is why rudimentary horoscopes, like those generalized traits or predictions published in newspapers, don’t completely ring true for many of us.
Felines, who gestate in only 2 ½ months, can be born any time of year. Personalities well known among cats overall likely play a role in this book’s descriptions. The expressive, action pictures certainly imply comedy rather than real fortunetelling or character assessing. This isn’t something I would keep as a reference nor read again but it is brief enough that I took in all the of signs’ descriptions from cover to cover. It made me smile in many places. I’m happy to give it to someone else, who will have fun with it for a lark too.
August 23, 2019
I give this strange, over-priced piece of useless fluff a second star only because of the lively and sometimes humorous translation by the phenomenal multi-lingual translator Anthea Bell. As far as the book's value goes, it would have had to be a rip-roaring, laugh-a-minute wonder to really rate high for me. And it isn't. I inherited it from my pre-teen daughter, and decided to read through it before passing it on. OK--so I've read it. I certainly can't recommend it to anyone else. I thought hard about possible uses for the book, and the only one I could conjure would be some potential for ideas a writer might find useful in writing a novel or short story that includes at least one feline character.
August 31, 2012
This book is a bit of fun for cat owners. I think most of the star sign profiles would have something in them to match any individual cat, but I must admit the bits that really do not apply to mine were never in his own star sign profile. A nice little book, with cute illustrations.
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May 1, 2017Gollancz (1992)
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