Mars Goes Around Once in About 1 Year and 10 Months
Mars takes about 687 days to go around the Sun once. In days, that is about 1 year and 10 months. The period it stays in one sign is about 2 months.
It is slower than the Sun or the Moon, but not as long as Saturn or Jupiter. This medium speed is the characteristic of how Mars is read. It is used not for fine changes in weekly units, but as a marker for looking at waves in work that continue in units of several months. For example, it is a cycle whose length tends to overlap with the period from launching one project to putting it into form, or the period from expanding an assignment to settling down.
Mars is a planet read in connection with using energy and moving forward. However, continuing to put energy in is not good. This site's way of thinking is to read it as a marker for thinking separately about periods to put energy in and periods to organize.
Retrograde Occurs About Once Every 2 Years and 2 Months
Mars retrograde occurs about once every 2 years and 2 months. It is not a movement that occurs several times a year like Mercury. For that reason, a retrograde period is read not as a daily fine review, but as a break point for confirming the way of proceeding itself that you have advanced in units of several months.
Even if you confirm how you are proceeding during a retrograde period, there is no need to stop work. The meaning is in checking how you are applying energy. Is there no bias in responsibilities, is there no strain in how deadlines are placed, does the order of advancing match the actual situation? If you check such points, after returning to direct motion it becomes easier to advance with the same way of applying energy.
Mars's Changes in 2027
Mars's movements in 2027 have been obtained by calculation as follows. At the beginning of the year it is in Virgo, and begins retrograde on January 10. On February 21 it moves into Leo, and on April 1 it returns to direct motion. After that, it moves into Virgo on May 14, Libra on July 15, Scorpio on September 2, Sagittarius on October 16, and Capricorn on November 26.
The characteristic of this year is the movement at the beginning of the year. It begins retrograde in Virgo, moves into Leo and then returns to direct motion, and advances again into Virgo. From the beginning of the year through early spring, it is not a period of simply moving in one direction, but a period that includes movement of going and returning. If you place plans on the premise that you will reconfirm in spring the way of proceeding you decided at the beginning of the year, it overlaps with this movement without strain.
After summer, it moves signs on July 15, September 2, October 16, and November 26, at intervals close to about two months. It is a form where a break point comes every two months.
Separate Periods to Use Energy from Periods to Organize
What is central in how to read Mars's waves is to separate periods to use energy from periods to organize.
What suits a period to use energy is taking on a new assignment, deciding the order of delayed projects anew and moving them forward, and situations where you need to approach related parties. Conversely, what suits a period to organize is putting procedures into documents, leveling out bias in responsibilities, and arranging conditions for the next situation where you will use energy.
In work in your 40s and 50s, there are both situations where you yourself put out energy, and situations where you organize so that other people can put out energy. In younger years the former was central, but as your position rises, the weight of the latter increases. Mars's break point of about two months can be used as a marker for thinking about that switching. It is a form where, at each break point, you decide whether the current two months are a period for you to step forward yourself, or a period to organize in preparation for what is next.
Using the Two-Month Break Points for Organization
The concrete way to use it is to make the day a sign changes your organization check day.
For example, using days such as May 14, July 15, and September 2 as markers, you check how you are applying energy for projects in progress at that point. Are you putting too much energy in and causing other assignments to stall, or conversely, are you only doing organizing work and projects that should move forward are stopped? Even doing this check once every two months lets you find bias in how you apply energy early.
Another use is to avoid unreasonable packing in. Mars stays in one sign for about two months, and there is a limit to what can be done in that time. At each two-month break point, narrow down what to finish to one or two items, and send the rest to the next break point. Creating organization that does not pack things in, on the premise that there are break points, is the key point for continuing for a long time.
Mars's cycle is not something to read by momentum alone. Please use it as an article for deciding the waves of your energy yourself, using the actual movements of one circuit in about 687 days and a stay of about two months as markers. Mars's position each month can be checked in the planetary movements in this site's monthly horoscope.