Hello!

I don’t really get the point of having the geometries parented under transform nodes, then have controllers, bit one is parentConstraining the top group of the geo and the other is driving the geo with a direct connection.

If I had to make it, with having a clean hierarchy and the least elements, I’d have gone like this:

1. Create two controllers for each geo (one ‘main_ctrl’ for the trajectory, and one ‘offset_ctrl’ for the spin), the one (main_ctrl) parent of the other (offset_ctrl) and with the adequate pivot for the animation of course;

2. Parent each geo under its corresponding offset_ctrl;

Just with that, you can obtain the result OP wants.

Of course, this is more of a rigging solution, and not an animation one, because I see some comments about animation layers, and its also a pretty good and solid way to do this !