Mars retrograde 2025

1 period, 54 days inside the year — 14.8% of 2025. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

79 days · retreats 19.16° · crosses the year boundary

7 December → 24 February 2025 in Leo

Stations retrograde 7 Dec 2024, 00:24 UTC at 5.83° Leo

Stations direct 24 Feb 2025, 01:09 UTC at 16.67° Cancer

Shadow opens 5 Oct 2024 (63 days before)

Shadow closes 2 May 2025 (67 days after)

Full window including shadows 209 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 2025

2024 Ended 9 February 2025 after 65 days, moving back 17.88° through the zodiac.

2027 Begins 10 January 2027 and runs 81 days.

Gap across 2025

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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