Mars retrograde 1945

1 period, 27 days inside the year — 7.4% of 1945. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

67 days · retreats 18.22° · crosses the year boundary

4 December → 9 February 1946 in Leo

Stations retrograde 4 Dec 1945, 23:05 UTC at 3.98° Leo

Stations direct 9 Feb 1946, 23:59 UTC at 15.76° Cancer

Shadow opens 5 Oct 1945 (61 days before)

Shadow closes 29 Apr 1946 (79 days after)

Full window including shadows 207 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mars retrogrades either side of 1945

1944 Ended 10 January 1944 after 49 days, moving back 13° through the zodiac.

1946 Begins 4 December 1945 and runs 79 days.

Gap across 1945

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.

← 1944 Mars retrograde in 1944. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1946 → Mars retrograde in 1946.