Mars retrograde 1944

1 period, 9 days inside the year — 2.5% of 1944. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

49 days · retreats 13° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 10 January 1944 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1943, 00:00 UTC at 18.64° Gemini

Stations direct 10 Jan 1944, 05:13 UTC at 5.64° Gemini

Shadow opens 1 Sep 1943 (81 days before)

Shadow closes 2 Mar 1944 (52 days after)

Full window including shadows 182 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mars retrogrades either side of 1944

1943 Ended 10 January 1944 after 74 days, moving back 17.37° through the zodiac.

1945 Begins 4 December 1945 and runs 67 days.

Gap across 1944

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.

← 1943 Mars retrograde in 1943. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1945 → Mars retrograde in 1945.