Mars retrograde 1976

1 period, 20 days inside the year — 5.4% of 1976. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

60 days · retreats 16.2° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 20 January 1976 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1975, 00:00 UTC at 1.27° Cancer

Stations direct 20 Jan 1976, 21:27 UTC at 15.07° Gemini

Shadow opens 9 Sep 1975 (73 days before)

Shadow closes 20 Mar 1976 (60 days after)

Full window including shadows 193 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mars retrogrades either side of 1976

1975 Ended 20 January 1976 after 75 days, moving back 17.94° through the zodiac.

1977 Begins 12 December 1977 and runs 59 days.

Gap across 1976

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.

← 1975 Mars retrograde in 1975. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1977 → Mars retrograde in 1977.