This is the week the fall's relationship curriculum stops being a rumor and becomes your problem. We've been talking about the Venus retrograde like it's weather coming in from three states over, and now it's in the driveway. Venus is in Scorpio, moving slow, sitting in her least favorite outfit, and on Tuesday she squares Pluto for the first of three times between now and December. Which means whatever has been feeling charged in your closest relationships since the end of August, the thing that seemed small but keeps poking something big and subterranean, is not a fluke and it's not going away. It's the opening scene. The syllabus is being handed out this week, and almost everything on it runs through mid-December, so if nothing feels resolved by Friday, that is not failure, that is the design. Venus in Scorpio doesn't want the pleasant version ...