Osamenor
Staff member
Does turning retrograde prevents Mars doing other things in your chart? Depending on what house system you use, etc, it could be interesting to have a look at whether Mars crosses the house boundary and comes back from there, or he chooses not to enter the second house by turning rx.
In Placidus, my second house cusp is at 11* Aquarius. Mars will turn retrograde at 9* Aquarius, a couple degrees short of H2. In whole sign and equal house, Mars crosses my second house cusp during and after the retrograde.
Mars will also stop a couple degrees short of making an exact opposition to my natal Saturn before turning direct, and a couple more degrees short of making an exact square to natal Jupiter and my MC/IC axis (Jupiter is on my IC; Uranus making a somewhat wider conjunction with my MC). But, since it does hit the exact square to Uranus more than once, it seems to me that brings in the planets and points involved in the t-square with Uranus--an angular, cardinal t-square.