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Mars retrograde 2027: retrograde January 10 at 10° Virgo, direct April 1 at 20° Leo, shadow November 5, 2026 to June 8, 2027. Free calculator maps it onto your birth chart with houses, station aspects and triple-pass dates.
Retrograde station: January 10, 2027 at 10° Virgo. Direct station: April 1, 2027 at 20° Leo. Pre-shadow from November 5, 2026, post-shadow until June 8, 2027. Mars spends about 81 days retrograde and walks the same 20-degree arc three times: forward through late 2026, backward through winter, forward again into spring. This page computes those moments from the ephemeris the same way it computes your chart, so every date and degree agrees with the sky.
Twenty degrees spanning late Leo and early Virgo get walked three times, and they carry a specific story: Virgo rules the work itself, the craft, the routine, the fix; Leo rules the reason you wanted to be good in the first place. A Mars retrograde backing from Virgo into Leo classically marks a season where grinding harder stops working and the deeper question, what is this effort for and whose approval is it chasing, comes up for review. The house those degrees occupy in your chart names the arena, and that is different for every birth time.
The two stations are the sensitive degrees of the season. If you have personal planets or angles near 10° Virgo or 20° Leo (or facing them from Pisces and Aquarius), the stations land on your chart directly, and any natal point inside the arc gets crossed three times on exact, computable dates. The calculator checks all of it: houses crossed, station aspects, and your triple-pass calendar. A clean miss is a real answer too: that retrograde is background weather for you, whatever the headlines say.
Mars stations retrograde on January 10, 2027 at 10° Virgo and turns direct on April 1, 2027 at 20° Leo, an 81-day retrograde. The pre-shadow opens November 5, 2026 and the post-shadow runs to June 8, 2027, so the full season spans about seven months. These dates are solved from the Swiss Ephemeris at the exact station moments, and this is the only Mars retrograde of 2027: Mars retrogrades roughly every 26 months, less often than any other visible planet.
The arc starts at 10° Virgo, the sign of work, craft, health routines and getting details right, and retreats into Leo, the sign of pride, creative fire and being seen. Tradition reads a Mars retrograde as the review season for drive itself: how you push, compete, and spend effort gets re-strategized rather than forced. This one moves that review from the workshop back to the ego, so stalled projects and old points of pride are the classic material. Which life area it lands in for YOU is the house question, computed from your birth time.
The traditional advice is to avoid forcing brand-new launches, escalating conflicts, or making irreversible physical pushes on old momentum, and to use the window for strategy, training and finishing instead. Astrologers treat that as timing guidance rather than prophecy: nothing stops working, but effort tends to reward review over brute force. Whether the season is personal for you is a chart question, and the calculator checks whether either station lands on your planets and which house carries the arc.