Trump's endless barrage of half truths and confusing aggressions against foreign countries and their leaders, along daily extreme, even bizarre, barbs shot at U.S. companies, policies and individuals is absolutely nerve wracking. Jon Stewart described this perfectly, 'Late Show': Jon Stewart rips 'exhausting' Trump orders, 'vindictive chaos'. In this pic from the show, Stewart -- a dead animal on his head, red tie trailing to the ground and maniacal grin -- reads from a scroll of upcoming crazed executive orders, demonstrating again a picture is worth a thousand words.

The Celestial Wheel has offered snippets from Trump's Vedic chart. Notable is this from the December 1, 2016, which entry was aptly titled Reiterating The Disturbance In The Space Time Continuum,

The January 11, 2017 Celestial Wheel entry, Trump's Hidden Enemies, discussed further Trump's birth on a total lunar eclipse.  Here are the introductory paragraphs of that entry,

Note the emphasized sentence, The solar ego is both large and compromised.  This results from Rahu (head-of-the-dragon eclipse point), which is powerful in the world, giving our worldly cravings and desires, both supercharging the solar ego and eclipsing (blocking) the solar soul.

Eclipses occur when an eclipse point is within twelve degrees of the Sun or Moon, but notice in Trump's chart Rahu was just slightly over two degrees from his Sun.  This doesn't make the astronomical eclipse stronger.  But it does inflame Rahu's astrological influence upon the Sun -- the ego and the soul.

As the Sun is a significator of the father, there's a lot of karma with him, especially in living up to paternal standards.  With Rahu, no matter how much one achieves, it's never enough.  That the father abandoned Trump by throwing him out of the house into military school at age 12, added to this psychological issue.  Not only is the ego huge, but Trump is always fearful of being thrown out again -- as he also was by the bankers from his Atlantic City casinos and will now again as President.  (See again the January 11, 2017 entry about his being thrown out by Saturn crossing his Moon.)

Another solar issue is that his Sun is not just too close to Rahu the dragon, but it is at the very edge of the 30 degree house/sign boundary at 29 degrees, 49 minutes.  Like being at the river bank where these is no current, this tremendously weakens the Sun.  This results in outer confidence and inner fear.

Yes, Jupiter throws an aspect (glance) that steadies the solar ego and gives him leadership ability, the warm and comforting side -- until he feels threatened and then cuts perceived enemies to pieces to protect his ego -- status and feeling of self worth.  And his crazy Moon throws an aspect to the Sun as well, giving the ability to connect well with the public.  But, with the Moon ruling the twelfth house of loss in this chart, the lunar glow is an evil one.

Another factor in Trump being a hollow man is that his great but compromised Sun sits in the tenth house of career -- the future, the outer world and self.  But his tremendously afflicted perceptional Moon is in his fourth house of the emotions -- the past and ones deepest feelings and beliefs.  The tenth house, then, is the ego and the fourth house the soul.  Primary among the Moon's hardships is being close to Ketu, the dissolving tail-of-the-dragon eclipse point.  This makes Trump live by his emotions, but blocks perception of the soul, if not the soul itself.

Thus, Trump has a huge, even overwhelming, ego -- outer shell -- which he protects at all costs - but no soul.   He lacks internal strength -- no emotional foundation, no belief in himself, no confidence -- when confronted with enemies or criticism.  He is the hollow man -- appearing strong but actually weak, like an egg shell with nothing inside.

This explanation helps us understand not only why Trump has to slay all challengers, real or imagined, but also why he insists to himself and everyone else that he's a winner -- always.  This keeps the fragile outer shell intact. How does he do this?  Trump's greatest weapon is his tremendously strong Jupiter in the second house of speech, which makes him very slick (convincing) along with an aspect (glance) from his very nasty Saturn, that allows him to lie convincingly -- to both himself and others.  Even the worst failures become wins.  Yesterday's failed special forces attack in Yemen was, of course, a great victory according to Trump, Yemen Aftermath: Trump's First Military Raid Continues To Raise Questions.

The Celestial Wheel has explained that Saturn crossing his Moon for the third time will result in him being thrown out the third time -- called Sadi Sati in Vedic Astrology. Indians say about this cycle, repeating every twenty nine years, that often the grandparents are lost during the first Sadi Sati, the parents lost during the second Sadi Sati and that the person loses himself in his third Sadi Sati.

This suggests Trump falls ill or even dies during this current Sadi Sati.  The  December 1, 2016  Celestial Wheel also included the first prediction about Trump's health,

The astrological reasoning here is that the fourth is the house of the heart, and the Sun is the heart -- both of which are tremendously afflicted in this chart -- as described above.  Hospitalization is called for since his Moon rules the twelfth house of secluded places -- hospitals, caves, ashrams, islands....  However, there is no prediction for when this is likely to occur.   But this article suggests it will be soon, Trump’s emotional tailspin was predictable.

There is, however, a possible history of Trump being hospitalized, for a nervous breakdown in 1990 -- when his second Sadi Sati that resulted in him being thrown out of the casinos, occurred.  Faced with this loss, with the compulsion to always be a winner to protect his solar ego shell, Trump lost it.  Young to have a heart attack, his mind shattered.  Here's an article about that, Kurt Eichenwald Further Explains His Claim That Trump Was Institutionalized.  This makes sense astrologically, for in 1990, Trump was running his Moon with Venus Dasa planets -- planetary cycles.  His Moon rules his twelfth house of hospitalization and Venus is placed in the twelfth. Further, that year, eclipses occurred in his sixth house of acute illness and his twelfth house of hospitalization.

I don't quite know why this image is fitting to publish here. It just feels right.

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Doug Riemer

Winter Eclipse Month

February is an eclipse month this year. The January 26 Celestial Wheel, Recapping The Last Week,
began by stating,

That entry closed with,

I miscalculated the solar eclipse information. It should be, February 26, 10:00 AM at 14:06 Aquarius.

With this correction, neither eclipse hits a planet in the U.S. chart or Trump's chart.

Yet, eclipses are destabilizing in their blocking the light of the Moon and the Sun.  During an eclipses, the luminaries' light is blocked, which naturally harms the Moon's perception and worldly benefits and the Sun's ego and soul.  This is the reason ancient societies greatly feared eclipses.  Also, however, with this blockage, the skies darken and the stars are shine -- giving the second eclipse signification -- revealing.

Thus, during the eclipse season, mental stability, confidence and power are harmed, and information secreted in the heavens is shown.

The term eclipse season is used because eclipse effects begin about a couple of weeks before the eclipse and continue for a week or so afterwards.  So, we're already experience eclipse effects, which will continue until early March.

This suggests that the current Trump kerfuffle -- the immigration and travel ban and his clumsy attempt to justify that executive order -- is being exposed for not being true.. This is a bad time for the Alt-facts and Alt-truth folks!

Another planetary signification is that yesterday, Jupiter, the great benefic, turned retrograde.  This direction reversal weakens Jupiter's power, making him actually passive. Jupiter's retrograde continues until June 9.

Because Trump's great Jupiter is in the second house of speech in his Vedic chart, and is also transiting there, he's been able to lies effectively -- to not just others but also himself.  Retrograde takes the wind out of the verbal sails.

Combine the eclipse blocking and revealing truth influences with Trump's loss of ability to convince, then the prediction can be made that the courts will rule against him.  He will also be swimming upstream in his other efforts to exert authority.

This also adds to the conflict between what Trump says and reality -- bringing him closer to the collision between his absolute confidence and and the reality of losses.  As these pile up, his mental stress will accumulate, like adding straw to the camel's back.

Ah, but which upcoming stalk of straw will cause the overload?

This will be another stress between Trump's absolute determination to be right, to always win, and being found wrong, to lose.

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Doug Riemer

A Predictive Hit

The (above) February 7 Celestial Wheel, Winter Eclipse Month -- now posted to the web here -- predicted,

This morning's Washington Post article, Donald Trump just lost, bigly, stated,

Since this loss to Trump is the first in 18 months, the Celestial Wheel prediction for this is a it -- not just luck.

The February 7 entry continued with this,

Let's see how this plays out. While there are storm clouds already on Trump's horizon, others will doubtless arise out of nowhere. Recall the January 11 entry, Trump's Hidden Enemies.

Bear in mind The Hollow Man must always win to protect his fragile outer shell.  This loss adds tremendous mental and emotional stress. Cognitive dissonance is perhaps a useful term here.

The Celestial Wheel 2002-2017©
Doug Riemer

Trump's mid February crisis has its roots in planetary karmas beginning January 27.  These are Venus joining Mars in Virgo and Venus//Mars opposite Jupiter.

Let's revisit that forecasting.

The January 20 Celestial Wheel, Trump Through The Rift In the Space Time Continuum Disturbance, discussed a major shift in the planetary alignments,

The January 30 Celestial Wheel entry, An Updraft For The People But A Downdraft For Trump, explained Venus joining Mars in Pisces amplifies Mars/Jupiter advocacy into great passion for humanitarian, fairness and compassion for others.  The below chart for that day shows these relationships -- Mars conjunct Venus, both aspecting Jupiter and Jupiter aspecting Mars/Venus.

January 30

These planetary dispositions were analyzed for the U.S. chart and Trump's,

Early February brought the additional karmas of eclipses and Jupiter retrograde.  The (above) February 7 Celestial Wheel, Winter Eclipse Month, explained that eclipse blocking and revealing truth influences this month, combined with Jupiter turning weakly retrograde (Trump's loss of ability to convince) would result in the courts ruling against his foreign travel ban.  That happened.  The entry continued with, He will also be swimming upstream in his other efforts to exert authority.

The February 7 entry closed with,

Integrating these influences, the Mars/Venus/Jupiter combination (January 27 to March 1) set the foundation for the challenging karmas this month being brought by eclipses and Jupiter retrograde.  With all three afflictions now happening simultaneously, Trump is besieged, cornered and powerless.  The solar eclipse February 26 can be calamitous.

We can see how these stresses have already pushed Trump to the edge in his today unhinged Tweets,

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Doug Riemer

Why Trump Is So "Full Of Himself' Now

The most recent Celestial Wheel entry, February 17 (above) was titled, The Build Up To Crisis.  It described the tough karmas Trump is dealing with now by adding in the Mars/Venus conjunction in Pisces,

Integrating these influences, the Mars/Venus/Jupiter combination (January 27 to March 1) set the foundation for the challenging karmas this month being brought by eclipses and Jupiter retrograde.  With all three afflictions now happening simultaneously, Trump is besieged, cornered and powerless.  The solar eclipse February 26 can be calamitous.

The eighth is the house of life and death. It is a tremendous source of energy, which can make a person full of life, sexually appealing, charged up, but also bring downfalls -- calamity, disaster, scandal, disgrace, accidents, violence, death....  For example, women with Venus in the eighth house are just delightful, charming, fun, charismatic, flattering, sexy... and are therefore often performers.  But they also typically suffer in Venus's signification for love and relationship and sometimes have sexual diseases, even cancers.  Most actresses have very strong eighth houses and have also been married several times, with lots of dramas in their public life. Consider Angelina Jolie with her most recent break up and mastectomy.

Because Venus in Pisces is exalted, she really powers Trump up!  He's just full of himself and entertains others with his press conference, rally and antics at his Southern White House.  His rally in Florida was notable for Trump inviting a fan up to the stage.  There, he rants and raves, and Trump announces, A Star Is Born. (Really, ya gotta watch the video.)

This is clearly Trump's ideal supporter -- a 47 year old unshaven Florida car salesman -- the kind who bangs on the hood of the car exhorting customers to buy at the lowest price ever for this American Dream!

Meanwhile, back to the serious, but boring and certainly not titillating at all business of running the country, US defense secretary Mattis stresses NATO importance with German counterpart,

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Doug Riemer

Tomorrow's Solar Eclipse

Astrologically, the Sun is kingship, suggesting kings are eclipsed -- blocked -- by eclipses.

Modern democratic leaders, however, tend to have strong Saturns -- servants to the people.

Trump is an exception with his powerful Sun, that was, however, in an eclipse at the time
of his birth.

Let's see what happens.

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Doug Riemer