Mars retrograde 1930

1 period, 13 days inside the year — 3.7% of 1930. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

53 days · retreats 14.86° · crosses the year boundary

18 December → 9 February 1931 in Leo

Stations retrograde 18 Dec 1930, 13:52 UTC at 17.78° Leo

Stations direct 9 Feb 1931, 23:59 UTC at 2.92° Leo

Shadow opens 24 Oct 1930 (55 days before)

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mars retrogrades either side of 1930

1929 Ended 27 January 1929 after 67 days, moving back 17.62° through the zodiac.

1931 Begins 18 December 1930 and runs 80 days.

Gap across 1930

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.

← 1929 Mars retrograde in 1929. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1931 → Mars retrograde in 1931.