Mars retrograde 1915

1 period, 0 days inside the year — 0% of 1915. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

40 days · retreats 9.74° · crosses the year boundary

31 December → 9 February 1916 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 31 Dec 1915, 21:55 UTC at 0.99° Virgo

Stations direct 9 Feb 1916, 23:59 UTC at 21.26° Leo

Shadow opens 18 Nov 1915 (44 days before)

Read against Virgo, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mars retrogrades either side of 1915

1914 Ended 13 February 1914 after 78 days, moving back 18.9° through the zodiac.

1916 Begins 31 December 1915 and runs 81 days.

Gap across 1915

1.9 years between the two — long enough for a whole calendar year to fall inside it with nothing to report.

Both dates are computed from the planet’s apparent motion, not taken from a table. A retrograde begins the moment its daily movement against the stars turns negative, and that moment is findable to the hour.

← 1914 Mars retrograde in 1914. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1916 → Mars retrograde in 1916.