MARS GOES RETROGRADE BACK TO GEMINI 22 DEGREESÂ
Mars will retrograde back into Gemini on Jan. 20th in the late evening in the US and be retrograde until Feb. 23rd.  Mars in early degrees of Cancer and late degrees of Jan. 19-23rd creates some weakness during the transition and can bring out waves of anger and irritability and low energy. Â
 The good news is that Mars is retrograde in good nakshatras of Purnavasu (Gemini 20-29.59) and that is supportive.  Mars in Purnavasu will try to get answers quickly and not in a traditional way. The connection between Mars and Jupiter increases love of risk-taking, speculating, athletics and verbal jousting.
If you have retrograde Mars in your natal chart, Mars is less inclined to take action and a person needs a fire under them to get something done.  Getting plenty of exercise and movement is important during Mars retrograde. Follow the Nike slogan: “Just do it!”   It is very easy to get into “why bother energy” rather than go to gym.
Retrograde malefics are more powerful to cause harm so if Mars is a particularly bad planet for you like for Gemini, Virgo, Taurus, and Libra rising, it will have more power to cause problems.  Aries and Scorpio Moon and Rising signs get stronger from it but it always gives energy in fits and starts and one has to remember to not think too ponderously about stuff and just do it.  Mars is revisiting Gemini Jan. 20-April 3rd where it was August 27-Oct 20th 2024 so we will get a rerun of the last year where Mars in Gemini brought more verbal jousting. If you have an incomplete relationship issues from that time, they are likely to come up to complete. Whatever unresolved issues came up late last summer and early fall, will come up to be revisited and healed.
For the wrong signs, retrograde malefics tend to do more harm than good.  The signs that have a better time with Mars retrograde include Aries and Scorpio rising, Pisces rising and Cancer rising. Mars is transiting the 8th house for Scorpio rising and the 3rd house for.Aries rising and so Aries may have to deal with sibling issues and blocks to starting a new business while Scorpio may have to deal with challenges with business partnerships and finance.
My friend Gary O’Toole of Timeline Astrology (see www.timelineastrology.com) explains Mars retrograde best: ” There is outward energy to get stuff done but the inner anger and frustration might feel like there is a block in place and if when we feel blocked, we may not act. So, we have to watch sudden angry outbursts with retrograde Mars.”
We sometimes just have to get out there and do things carefully rather than procrastinate and we have to get a lot of exercise in to release any bottled-up explosive energy that wants to come out so it does not explode in the wrong way. If anger is bottling up, find a way to release it through exercise or dance or maybe just hitting a pillow or screaming out loud when there is no one to bear the brunt of your anger.
Find ways to stay cool by avoiding hot and spicy foods, drinking coconut water and cooling food, and avoiding over-exerting yourself which can lead to wild bursts of anger. Learn to be patient with delays and frustrations and realize it will all get done without abusing your body and those around you.
On the level of Mundane astrology, the best analog year was the winter of 2010 where we had the major Hatti earthquake and a number of cyberattacks.
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