Past, 79.1 days
Mars retrograde, December 2024
Mars stations retrograde on Friday 6 December 2024, 23:33 UTC at 6°10′ Leo and turns direct on Monday 24 February 2025, 02:00 UTC at 17°01′ Cancer, having slipped back from Leo into Cancer. The shadow period runs from 5 October 2024 to 2 May 2025.
For 79.1 days Mars retraces the degrees between 17°01′ Cancer and 6°10′ Leo. Astrologers read a retrograde as a review of whatever that planet governs: for Mercury the words, plans and devices, for Venus the attachments and the budget, for Mars the drive and the timing, for the slow planets a long rewrite of a bigger theme. The houses it walks through for your sign are in the table below.
By sign
Which house it walks through
| Sun sign | House | Mars's retrograde (Cancer and Leo) falls on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | fourth | home, family, roots | |
| Taurus | third | conversations, siblings, short trips | |
| Gemini | second | money, possessions, values | |
| Cancer | first | self, body, how you come across | |
| Leo | twelfth | rest, privacy, what happens behind the scenes | |
| Virgo | eleventh | friends, groups, plans | |
| Libra | tenth | career and public role | |
| Scorpio | ninth | travel, study, beliefs | |
| Sagittarius | eighth | shared money, intimacy, endings | |
| Capricorn | seventh | partners and one-to-one relationships | |
| Aquarius | sixth | daily work, routines, health | |
| Pisces | fifth | romance, play, children, creative work | |
Whole-sign houses counted from the Sun sign, the convention behind every Sun-sign horoscope. Your rising sign gives a more personal count: draw your chart.
The retrograde starts one sign later, in Leo: add one house for the first part.