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CAT BLAMES AFFAIR ON VENUS. HUSBAND BLAMES DEREK.

The planets are taking a lot of blame for a very local arrangement.

A tortoiseshell and ginger cat share an open ground-floor windowsill while a grey cat looks up from the patio below.

Vivienne says Venus retrograde is responsible for her being found on Derek’s windowsill at a quarter past midnight. Her husband Martin says Venus does not live four doors down with a conveniently broken cat flap.

She has asked him to respect the complexity of her chart. He has asked why the chart smells of Derek.

Friends describe the marriage as entering a difficult phase. Vivienne prefers “a period of discovery.”

Martin has discovered quite enough. Derek, meanwhile, has suddenly become very intrested in privacy.

THE HUMAN STORY BEHIND THE NONSENSE

Pattern inspiration: Aliza Kelly’s Venus-retrograde relationship forecast. — E! News, 2026-10-03. This is an original fictional cat story, not a report about the real people in that coverage.

Fiction & satire. These cats and their scandals are invented.

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