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Free Mars return calculator: the exact date of your next Mars return, every pass in retrograde years, the returns around now, and your natal Mars by sign, degree and house.
Mars is the fastest of the outer personal cycles that astrologers track with returns: the Sun returns yearly, Venus roughly yearly, Mars about every two years, Jupiter every twelve, Saturn every twenty-nine. A Mars return is the reset of your drive. The calculator dates the one nearest to today to the day, shows whether it is a single pass or a retrograde triple, and lists the returns around now so you can look back at what you started at the last one.
The exact day is a reset, not a lucky day. The week before it is when the old cycle gets finished or abandoned; the day itself is for naming the one thing the next two years are for; in a retrograde return the middle pass is for reviewing, not launching. The reading that follows does the audit of the last cycle from your chart and says what the house your Mars occupies is asking you to start.
The moment transiting Mars returns to the exact degree it occupied when you were born. Astrologers read it as the reset of a two-year cycle: how you want, compete, start and fight gets a new beginning, keyed to your natal Mars sign and house.
About every 687 days, roughly every two years, but the interval varies because Mars retrogrades. The calculator solves each return from the ephemeris rather than adding a fixed period.
When Mars stations retrograde near your natal degree it crosses it three times: forward, backward and forward again, over several months. The calculator dates all three; tradition reads them as the start, the review and the setting of the new cycle.
A fresh start for the Mars part of your life: drive, ambition, sexuality, conflict and courage. What you begin around the exact date tends to describe the two years that follow, and the house your natal Mars occupies says where the energy goes first.
For the return dates, no: Mars moves about half a degree a day, so the date and place settle the degree closely. For the house of your natal Mars, yes.