2024 & 2025 Mars Retrograde: What is Driving You? Reevaluate What Matters Most. Astrology with Kathryn Andren
Mars is a motivating force. In your personal astrology chart, Mars represents what is driving you. It reflects your desires and motivation. Mars says: Push it. Let’s move it. I instigate! Act on it. However, during a Mars Retrograde it is time to retreat. Consider the reverse: reflect and reevaluate what matters most.
When is Mars Retrograde?
Mars is Retrograde December 6, 2024 through February 23, 2025.
Mars Retrograde Begins December 6, 2024 6:33 PM Eastern at 6 Leo 11
Mars Stations Direct February 23, 2025 9:00 PM Eastern at 17 Cancer 01
Mars retrograde offers the opportunity to review what drives your desire. As this Mars Retrograde in 2024 & 2025 starts in the sign of Leo, then retreats to the zodiac sign of Cancer, reconsider what makes your heart sing, and who matters most in your life.
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Top Ten Themes for Mars Retrograde:
Remember proper use of will
Be reflective, rather then reactive
Take a healthy pause before expressing yourself, don’t stuff emotions
Reflect on healthy choices in your sex life, by understanding the consequences of desire
Revisit your creative impulses, intuition requires action
Reconsider priorities and be honest about your values
Reassess finances and money matters
Review your perceptions of self-esteem and embrace healthy sense of self-worth
Reevaluate relationship plus all matters of the heart
Reinvent yourself!
The Mars Retrograde in 2024 & 2025 starts by facing off to value loving Venus and potent Pluto. This pattern is a symbol for looking deeper at the realm of all relationships.
How do you react, respond and relate, or not?
Venus and Mars in modern astrology give clues on how you can best feel honored in your relationships with others. Mars and Venus by Zodiac sign and personal house placement reveals what is pleasing in potential partners.
When you are looking for love, your Mars and Venus position reflects your core values, priorities and motivation. While the Sun and Moon in a natal astrology chart also give relationship clues, Venus and Mars placements offer a wealth of information way beyond simple Sun sign compatibility.
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What does it mean when a planet goes retrograde?
A retrograde is simply an illusion. From our view on Earth, some planets appear to stay still in the sky, then apparently move backwards against the backdrop of stars. The illusion is the cycle of stopping, slowing down, and seemingly reversing before moving forward again. When a planet stations retrograde, astrologers say there is more power with this planet. Why?
Like an acupuncture session that aligns the meridians of a body, imagine the planet energizing a particular region of the sky. When you look at your personal birth chart, the planet in transit touches or aligns a specific area of your life. Planets in retrograde serve as a symbol for: reviewing, reflecting, revision, reconsideration, reevaluation, redo, retract, retreat or resurrect.
When Mercury is retrograde, Mercury the messenger gets a bad rap for transportation glitches and miscommunications. Since Mercury is the planet of speed, commerce and communication, it serves as a symbol to slow down or reconnect. If Mercury retrograde is rethinking, Mars retrograde is revise or redo.
Questions for contemplation during Mars Retrograde:
What is worth fighting for?
Who or what will you defend?
Where do you want to put your power, passion and energy?
Mars Retrograde 2024 starts facing off to Venus, and will also oppose the potent planet Pluto. In the coming weeks this astrology cycle highlights all matters of the heart. Reevaluate what matters most.
Remember, reflection rather than reaction is required.
The Mars placement in your natal astrology chart describes how I handle my energy, the force I have to assert myself and make things happen, it is my mode of operation. Mars reflects my most primal instinct, including the instinct for self-preservation, and my creative drive. It reveals the need to fight for survival, and fight for what I feel is right. Mars shows my competitive instincts, and my defense mechanisms.
The Mars position reflects how I create change in order to prevail and overcome obstacles. Mars also reveals natural sexual desires.
When Mars is retrograde in the sky story, there is extra attention and focus on this planet. Look to the Mars placement in your own personal chart, then reconsider for yourself how you may balance action and intuition with this Mars retrograde.
Mars takes 687 days to orbit the Sun. It takes approximately 2 years to go through all 12 signs. It stays in one zodiac sign from 1.5 months to 7.5 months, depending on direct or retrograde motion. A Mars retrograde occurs about every 2 years for approximately 10 - 11 weeks.
The Voice of Mars
I follow instinct and I do things independently. I move when I’m inspired. My action and response is firm, and assertive. I am ready to defend myself or my tribe, and I’m courageous to fight for what is right. I am very passionate and I must believe in what I do. I’m creative and a catalyst to initiate projects. I am motivated when I like something or someone. I have a strong, raw sexual nature.
Remember, Mars goes through it’s retrograde phase when it is opposite the Sun. Contemplate the themes of: action and ego, the right use of will, and taking action steps with confidence.
Kathryn Andren is an astrologer and intuitive currently based in New York. Dedicated to healing service since 1997, she integrates astrology, art, energy healing & massage therapy in her private practice. Her deep connection to land, sea and sky inspires a holistic approach to her consulting and teaching. She holds a BA in Psychology and embodies years of professional experience with intuitive wisdom.