Planet
Mars
How you go after what you want, and how you fight when it's refused.
- Speed
- six or seven weeks in a sign
- Retrograde
- about every two years, for two to three months
- Keywords
- drive · anger · courage
Mars is the will made visible: the way effort actually gets applied, the shape of anger, the thing that gets you out of the chair. Where Venus wants, Mars goes and takes.
It rules Aries outright and Scorpio in the traditional scheme, which is the same force spent in two directions: the open charge and the held pressure. Mars retrograde is the awkward one to live through; roughly two months every two years when the usual approach stops working and force applied harder makes it worse.
Where to go next
Right now
Where Mars stands at this hour is on the sky today, with every other body beside it.
When it turns
Whether Mars is retrograde today, and when it next stations, is on the retrograde tracker, computed rather than copied from a table.
In your chart
Where it stood the day you were born: cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.