Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the astrology podcast. Joining me today is Demetra George and we're going to be talking about the myth of the descent of a Nana and how it's connected with the cycle of Venus retrograde.

So hey Demetra, thanks for joining me today.

Hey Chris, yeah, this is fun.

We've been talking about some of this over this past week and I'm glad we're having the chance to discuss it more thoroughly.

Yeah, so this is something that's come up over the past few weeks because part of the premise is that a Nana was one of the most revered and popular goddesses in ancient Mesopotamia and she was a goddess of love and fertility, but also a goddess of war.

And you've given lectures on a Nana before I remember attending a lecture of years back in 2005 where you talked about how this ancient myth of the descent of a Nana was connected with the Venus retrograde cycle.

And what was interesting recently that both you and I noticed and a lot of other astrologers noticed is that on July 21st, the Barbie movie was released and that was the same day the Venus station retrograde and at that time, a couple days later, there was a writer.

There was an article being passed round by a writer named Meg Ellis and who pointed out that there was actually a bunch of striking parallels with the myth of a Nana in the Barbie movie, which it wasn't clear that they were deliberate, but they may have just come up accidentally.

So I thought that we could talk about all of those topics today to see how it's all intertwined and some weird and kind of interesting way.

It's a fascinating premise that we're going to embark on here.

On one hand, the myth of the Nana speaks about her descent to the end of world and her return.

And within that, her, the nature of her relationship with her husband to move see.

But that myth of the dying and resurrected goddess or God was an ancient myth that manifested in many different cultures using different days and many cultures had different versions of that.

And so on one hand, it's an art type of story, but there are specific characteristics to the inanimate in particular that seem to be reflected in the Barbie movie.

So we're trying to hold the vision that it's both a larger story than only in Anna and yet many of the particulars are right there with the Nana story.

Yeah, and that's I guess that's part of the nature of archetypes is sometimes they bubble up in culture and transcend different times and different cultures and show up independently in different ways.

So let me read the article since it gives kind of the premise. I'll just read the intro of the article because that outlines it pretty clearly.

And I should mention since we're going to be talking about the Barbie movie and some of the story that there will be spoilers.

So if anybody hasn't seen it yet and you want to avoid spoilers, you should probably watch the movie first before listening to this.

If you care about that, but if you don't care about spoilers, then listen on.

All right, so here is the article. It was published in on a website called wildhunt.org called the wildhunt pagan news and perspectives.

And it was published by a writer named Meg Ellis and on July 23, 2023. So a couple of days after the movie came out and it's titled Barbie is the new Anana.

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