I’m increasingly of the opinion that it’s more cyclical in nature, happening again and again, and that there is a not so minor element of this in the Biblical Revelation. You may still be correct, there are numerous astronomical/astrological accounts from practially all ancient cultures describing the orderly movements of the planets coming undone, but there’s more to it than Venus or Ishtar. That one seems to have been tamed into a safer and less eccentric orbit after a near pass with the Sun.
I suspect they’ll find the course corrections took place in several passes of Earth, not one pass around the Sun.