The thesis for the April 22 Three Yo-yos is the yo-yo motion of three planets -- Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn -- in weak positions ...generate so much instability in the celestial wheel that any major stress coming soon will tip over the energetics -- bringing a crash of some kind.  The sensitive period is April until early May.

That entry also, then, suggested the upcoming stress causing the crash will be the catastrophic energy of Mars/Rahu in early to mid June.

This is the current transit chart -- where planets are in today's skies,

Transits May 2, 2019

Notice that Mercury -- the intellect -- is nearly through its fallen (weak) sign of Pisces.   In fact, tomorrow Mercury will finally emerge from its destabilizing yo-yo motion to move into Aries.  That will enable clarity and consequent understanding of events in the U.S., the world and your own personal experiences.

However, Jupiter (the great benefic) remains weakly retrograde in the very sensitive edge-of-the-sign Gandanta position in Scorpio until May 8.  Then, Jupiter will remain weak in retrograde until August 11.  Plus, Scorpio is the most difficult of the signs, further restricting Jupiter's protective nature.

Saturn (the great malefic) is also weak being conjoined dissolving Ketu and also retrograde April 30 to September 18 -- remaining close to Ketu.  (Consider the literal warfare in Venezuela and figurative one in Congress as Saturn turned retrograde two days ago.)

Thereby, although the triple yo-yo is nearly over, Jupiter and Saturn, the two big planets, which steer the solar system, remain in yo-yo motion through late summer.  Thus, while Mercury soon allow us to better understand the yo-yo motion instability, and to some extent alleviate it, the solar system remains substantially destabilized for months and thereby vulnerable to malefic energy.

This means that when warrior Mars attacks Rahu in June, all hell can break lose, and results will not be constrained by Jupiter and Saturn.  It will be like a fire which the fire department hoses down fires that pop up again and again and finally into a massive blaze.

The April 22 Three Yo-yos included this transit chart for June 11 to show the planetary dispositions when Mars and Rahu collide.

June 11, 2019

You can see that Mercury has joined Mar/Rahu in Gemini, and retrograde Saturn remains in very tight conjunction with Ketu.  And since Mars and Saturn aspect (glance upon) each other, as well as upon Rahu/Ketu, that destructive energy magnifies the harms.

Yet, June 11 is not and exact calamity date, for warrior Mars begins firing his flaming arrows at 3 or 4 degrees distance from another planet.  We can back up the chaos date to Tuesday, June 4.  That is Mars' day of the week, and also, the all-important Moon will be in the mix in Gemini then. These are confirming karmas.

June 4, 2019

All this being said, however, don't expect May to be a calm month.  As shown the above chart for today, Mars is at 27 degrees.   On May 6, he will transit (shift) into Gemini and begin attacking the four Gemini planets in the U.S. chart's seventh house of relationships and wealth -- and yo-yo Jupiter and Saturn cannot protect nor control destructions  June 4, then, will tend to mark, not an isolated Mars' attack, but rather a conflagration that began in early May.  Again, the economy is at risk, and so is Trump's mind, and his reputation. Yet, it is impossible to predict the nature of June 4 chaos -- natural disaster, terrorist violence, economical debacle....

The Celestial Wheel 2002-2019©
Doug Riemer

This spring, the Celestial Wheel has zeroed in upon a period of instability followed by a chaos, predicted to occur June 4.   Following is a summary of the analysis and conclusion in the May 2 Chaos June 4.

The March 26 Mercury Turns Forward In Two Days identified three difficult retrograde transits -- where the planets are in today's skies -- Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.

The April 20 Three Yo-yos explained these are concurrent from early April for a month.  The word yo-yo was used to describe the retrograde motion -- forward to backward to forward again.  This naturally results in instability.  Because these transits happen inharmful locations in the zodiac, the instability becomes difficulty.  And with three of these occur at the same time, the celestial wheel of planets becomes destabilized.  When an influence is occurs once, a result is possible; twice and it is likely; three times, and a result in inescapable.

Adding to the challenging karma, the eclipse points -- Rahu and Ketu are involved here.  Ketu, the hot dissolving tail-of-the-dragon eclipse point is with cold Saturn, the planet of honor, duty, responsibility, form and structure.  Ketu prods Saturn to big plans, only to quickly bust them up.  And then in June, transit Mars conjoins with transit Rahu, the fire-breathing head-of-the-dragon eclipse point.  Warrior Mars combines with inflammatory Rahu for tremendous hatred and violences, some vengeful -- in both the natural and man-made world.  Explosive is a good descriptor here.

Below is the U.S. chart.  The top red arrow shows fiery Mars crossing the chart's seventh house of relationships and the social nature.  This transit began May 6 and ends June 22.  The blue arrow shows cold Rahu (in his normal backwards motion) advancing upon Mars.

United States
July 4, 1776 at 6:17 PM Philadelphia

As Mars and Rahu move toward each other, Mars crosses the U.S. Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Sun -- harming each.  Mars and Rahu will be a little over 4 degrees apart when they get close to the the Sun - self, government and wealth for this chart.  Think of a smart bomb dropped on a major target. June 4 is the chaos date.

Below is a transit wheel for today showing this Mars/Rahu pincer movement.  The U.S. birth chart is the inner wheel.  Transits --Mars and Rahu at the bottom-- are in the inner wheel.

This past week has been full of Mars' discords and violences since Mars moved into the U.S. seventh house May 6.  There, he immediately began attacking birthchart Mars.  These Mars will continue as transit Mars closes in on birthchart Venus and Jupiter later this month and then, of course, the Sun for the June 4 chaos date with Rahu.

The May 2 Chaos June 4 explained these same karmas in the final paragraph,

In closing, look again at the above square Vedic birthchart for the U.S. The lower r red arrow shows Mars' next transit sign -- Cancer, the home, which is the eighth house of scandals, secrets and watery storms for the U.S.  The explosive energy of June 4, when transit Mars hits transit Rahu, will repeat in mid July when transit Mars hits birth chart Rahu.

If this sounds like a lot of heavy karma, it is!

The Celestial Wheel 2002-2019©
Doug Riemer

The (above) May 11 Mars & Rahu -- Pincers explained the impending clash of the four primary malefic (harmful) planets,

Because the U.S. chart has four planets in Gemini, where the Mars/Rahu conjunction is happening, it is hit very, very hard.  A chart showing these dispositions was included, and here's an update -- with the degrees for Mars and Rahu shown.  One of The Celestial Wheel postulates for events is that event-producing warrior Mars begins firing his flaming arrows at 3 or 4 degrees distance from another planet.

This has been proven out yet again when we look below at transit Mars' current position at 10:53 Gemini -- close to birth chart Venus at 12:26 Gemini.  Kapha (watery) Venus is females and the reproductive system.  Attacked by Mars, state legislatures recently passed egregious Venus abortion bills.  Venus is vehicles, and in this chart Venus rules the sixth house discords/war and eleventh house of goals and groups.  Let's unpack these.  Because Mars is storms, the U.S. has been hit with horrific Venus Kapha flooding and tornadoes.  There are also lots of vehicle accidents, and war looms.  And because Rahu is flying machines, airplanes, rockets, missiles and drones crash and threaten.  Venus' eleventh house rulership results in problems with goals and groups, which we can see in the political realm most clearly.

United States July 4, 1776

6:17 PM Philadelphia, PA

Mars will next attack Jupiter, the planet of wealth and luck. And as the ruler of the Ascendant (self) Jupiter binds America together, making it resistant to being broken apart.  Even the Civil War could not destroy the Union.  So while Mars attacks Jupiter, well being, especially wealth, is lost -- but even the most virulent and nasty discords don't fracture the national fabric.  For the U.S., the old military term applies, the center always holds.  Enemy flank attacks can batter the center but not break it.

With Mars nearly on top of Venus, and just five degrees from Jupiter, both are under fire from Mars' flank attacks.  It will get messier before it gets better -- especially when Chaos June 4 arrives.

After that, Mars will continue in Gemini until June 22 -- continuing tearing up the already battered turf and heading for a violent conjunction with Rahu June 14.  As that occurs on the U.S. Sun -- kingship and wealth -- both are hammered.  And remember, with both the big planets -- Jupiter and Saturn retrograde -- they can't mitigate losses and restore balance until at least August 11, whe Jupiter turs forward again.  It's gonna be a rough summer.

As for Trump, his mental Mercury is at 15:45 Gemini.  Mars is thereby already stimulating his temper.  And remember, Saturn/Ketu in his fifth house of the mind dulls and slows mental functions -- plus bring big plans that shatter.

By June 22 America will be a different place, but the center will still hold.  Trump, maybe not.

The Celestial Wheel 2002-2019©
Doug Riemer

Below is an email exchange regarding the (above) May 23 The Pincers Are Tightening.

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On 5/24/2019 9:43 PM, Patricia wrote:

This is a receipt for the email message you sent to
"undisclosed-recipients:" at 5/23/2019 1:57 PM

This receipt verifies that the message has been displayed on the
recipient's computer at 5/24/2019 6:43 PM

Doug Riemer's reply:

Cool. You read this!
Any questions?

On 5/25/2019 4:08 PM, Patricia wrote:

I did read it, but what is really happening? Trump is going to start a war or you think he is is going to be impeach?

Doug Riemer's reply:

Excerpts from this forecast, "Mars attacks Jupiter, well being, especially wealth, is lost" and "the U.S. Sun -- kingship and wealth -- both are hammered."

So I think the economy is gonna crash -- badly.  That will wreck Trump's presidency.  Trump truly is a horrible businessman, and he's doing that again.  He has power but no common sense.

Whether there will also be a war, or a huge disaster -- oil spill, earthquake, hurricane.... -- could also occur. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised that along with the economy crashing, one or more huge disasters occur. The planets are that bad this June onward.

Trump could start a war with like Iran to divert attention from the economy and his other failings, but I don't think he'll be able to pull it off.  Too much resistance to another Mideast war.

Whether that turns enough Republicans in the Senate against Trump -- to impeach him this summer -- I again don't know.  I do know, however, that sooner or later the Republicans must stand up to Trump and throw him out -- like they finally forced Nixon out. And that could happen this summer.

The Celestial Wheel 2002-2019©
Doug Riemer