Inanna: Myth, Astrology, and the Venus Cycle, Class 3: The Same Passage Elsewhere

Class 3 of 5: The Same Passage Elsewhere. Wednesday, November 18, 2026

1 PM PT | 4 PM ET | 9 PM UTC (90 minutes, live on Zoom)

The full series meets on Wednesdays at the same time: Nov 4, Nov 11, Nov 18, Nov 25 and Dec 2, 2026.

THEMES: Pattern • Culture • Resonance

Inanna's is the oldest written version of this story, and it has a great deal of company.

Cultures separated by mountains and millennia have told their own descents and returns. Some figures choose to go down; others are taken. Some come back whole, some come back altered, and some are gathered together again by other hands. Set side by side, these stories sort around one question that does a surprising amount of work: who makes the crossing, and who does the dying? The answer tells you what a culture believed the descent was for.

Astrologers have disagreed about this passage as well. Two major traditions looked at the same condition, a planet turning back, and valued it in opposite ways. Holding both views at once, without forcing a winner, is a useful skill in its own right.

Healing and Transformation Through the Venus Retrograde Journey

Inanna's descent to the underworld is the oldest recorded goddess myth, and it maps precisely onto the Venus synodic cycle: her reign as Evening Star, her forty-day disappearance at each retrograde, and her transformed return as Morning Star. This course teaches Venus retrograde as an initiatory process in natal and predictive work, then traces the same descent-and-return pattern across cultures, through Persephone, Osiris, Shukra, and Tibetan Chöd practice.

Program Details

• Class 1, Wed Nov 4: The Descent: Inanna
• Class 2, Wed Nov 11: The Crossing: The Cycle in the Sky
• Class 3, Wed Nov 18: The Same Passage Elsewhere
• Class 4, Wed Nov 25: The Archetype in Popular Culture
• Class 5, Wed Dec 2: Where You Are In It

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Replays: video replay, audio replay, slide PDF, closed-caption PDF and a 2-page summary arrive by email within 48 hours of each class. Students also get 12 months of student-portal access.

How to Join

Register at Synchronicity University (sliding-scale tuition). After registering you receive a confirmation email with your receipt and the Zoom links for all five classes.

https://www.synchronicityuniversity.com/ryan-hunt-nov-2026

About Ryan Hunt

Ryan Hunt is an astrologer, writer and Astrological Psychedelic Integration and Transition Coach based in Berkeley, California. He teaches at Kepler College, serves on the OPA board as Technology Director, and has taught through OPA, NCGR San Francisco, Nightlight Astrology and Synchronicity University. He reads charts like stories, in plain language, with traditional techniques: profections, zodiacal releasing, progressions and transits. He is writing a book and course on Inanna's descent and the Venus cycle. Learn more at:

www.Ryan-Hunt.com