Mars retrograde 2023

1 period, 12 days inside the year — 3.2% of 2023. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

52 days · retreats 13.88° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 12 January 2023 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 2022, 00:00 UTC at 21.69° Gemini

Stations direct 12 Jan 2023, 20:25 UTC at 7.81° Gemini

Shadow opens 3 Sep 2022 (79 days before)

Shadow closes 8 Mar 2023 (54 days after)

Full window including shadows 185 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 2023

2022 Ended 12 January 2023 after 74 days, moving back 17.49° through the zodiac.

2024 Begins 7 December 2024 and runs 65 days.

Gap across 2023

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.

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