Mars retrograde 1993

1 period, 45 days inside the year — 12.4% of 1993. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

78 days · retreats 18.95° · crosses the year boundary

28 November → 15 February 1993 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 28 Nov 1992, 23:58 UTC at 27.7° Cancer

Stations direct 15 Feb 1993, 06:24 UTC at 8.75° Cancer

Shadow opens 28 Sep 1992 (62 days before)

Shadow closes 22 Apr 1993 (67 days after)

Full window including shadows 207 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 1993

1992 Ended 9 February 1993 after 73 days, moving back 18.77° through the zodiac.

1995 Begins 2 January 1995 and runs 81 days.

Gap across 1993

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.

← 1992 Mars retrograde in 1992. All Mars retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1994 → Mars retrograde in 1994.