What Each Sign Needs To Focus On During The Mars Retrograde Energetic Reset (12/6 – 2/23)
Mars, the planet of action, passion, drive, and aggression, stations retrograde on December 6, ushering us into a 2.5 month period of reassessing our relationship to our goals, motivations, and desires. As the fiery planet of action, Mars provides the friction and motivation necessary to push us forward in pursuit of our creative vision and ambitions. However, when Mars is retrograde we often find this planet’s friction lending towards a sense of frustration by slowing us down or even bringing our current goals to a halt. While on its surface this is very frustrating, Mars retrograde invites us to consider whether our current pace and actions are sustainable and aligned, or leading us to burnout, or possibly even whether our current course of action is brewing conflict beneath the surface.
This Mars retrograde begins on December 6, starting off in Leo, the sign of creative authenticity and expression, and brings Mars backward into Cancer, the sign of nurturing and tending to ourselves emotionally. This Mars retrograde will last all the way until February 23, 2025, which means that this period of slowing down is transitioning us into the new year. While it may give off the feeling of starting the year on a sluggish foot, Mars retrograde is ultimately helping us to realign ourselves and move further into 2025 with an ignited sense of passion, drive, and excitement. But in order to do so, each sign is being asked to focus on some specific things in order to find that alignment to move forward. Read on to find out what your sign needs to bring into focus with this Mars retrograde in order to reset and move forward. Make sure to read your sun and rising sign!
Aries
Aries, because you are a Mars-ruled sign, Mars retrogrades are particularly challenging for you. This Mars retrograde is asking you to reassess your relationship to your own creativity. More specifically, it is asking you to focus on the connection between your sense of security in your life and how that supports your ability to be authentically creative. You’re being invited to rekindle your sense of joy in order to let your creativity fully shine by grounding into your home space and making it feel like the safe, nurturing space you need. When you are able to create from a sense of security, rather than a sense of urgency, you may find your creative output feels significantly more authentic and magnetic.
Taurus
Taurus, for you this Mars retrograde is bringing your focus towards the role of communication within your home space and domestic spheres. How can you focus on creating a stronger cohesiveness and connectivity between your family, friends, and loved ones by communicating more clearly, patiently, and compassionately? You may also find this Mars retrograde bringing attention to your social life, asking you to consider what kind of social activity leaves you feeling charged and excited and what leaves you feeling drained and exhausted. All of this together is important information when it comes to building a stronger network of support in your life.
Gemini
For you, Gemini, this Mars retrograde may start off with some struggles around communication with your friends, siblings, coworkers, or any other people you interact with on a regular basis. This Mars retrograde may also have you reassessing your finances and income. Bring your focus towards recentering yourself in your own personal values and worth in order to navigate your way through both of these things. What do you bring to the table, Gemini, that really enhances your community and network? And how can these things better bolster your own sense of security by enhancing your finances and income? If you find yourself getting carried away with the bigger picture, just remember that how you show up moment to moment, day to day, all add up to the bigger goals.
Cancer
You’ve recently wrapped up a long-term process of transformation that you’re still processing and integrating, Cancer. With that in mind, how can you take action moving forward as the person you have become? What does your sense of personal worth and values look like now, and what does that mean for the trajectory of your story from here? This Mars retrograde may have you reassessing your relationship between your creative gifts and your career, but focusing on what it means to be the person you’ve become in action is the key to finding cohesiveness and forward movement in those two spaces of your life.
Leo
As we round out 2024, you’ve been moving through some challenging moments when it comes to your relationship to your own authenticity and sense of self, Leo. As we end the year with this Mars retrograde, you may find yourself taking a step back when it comes to what you thought you were sure about in who you are. This Mars retrograde is demanding some introspection from you, especially as we make the transition out of 2024 and into 2025. In order to move forward into the new year with your strong, signature Leo confidence, you may want to consider what you know to be true when you quiet down all the external noise. Bringing that into your focus might require some much needed peace and solitude. However, taking the introspective time and space you need can be exactly the thing that reconnects you to yourself, allowing you to truly shine as the most authentic version of yourself.
Virgo
For you, Virgo, this Mars retrograde is bringing your focus to your mental health and spiritual well-being, and how those things can feed into and support your greater aspirations and dreams for yourself. It can be easy to get caught up on the external day-to-day when it comes to making things happen, but what becomes possible when you tend to your mental well-being? You just might find that stepping back and course-correcting your actions from a deep internal place, rather than constantly micro-adjusting your surroundings, brings you a momentum that feels all the more fulfilling, Virgo.
Libra
Libra, this Mars retrograde is bringing you a big moment of career reassessment. It’s possible that you’ve been feeling quite a bit of burnout in that area of your life, or at the very least feeling disconnected from why you have put yourself on the track you’re currently on. Bringing your focus back towards your own personal aspirations and dreams just might be the key in helping nudge movement in those areas you’re feeling stuck right now, Libra. Where can you bring your career path and your own personal aspirations back into harmony? Where do they possibly need a bit of separation in order for you to compartmentalize and take some pressure off? If you find yourself struggling with this, let yourself cut loose and have a little bit of fun with some friends to remind yourself of where a shared vision can create a sense of community and motivation in your life.
Scorpio
Scorpio, as a Mars-ruled sign, you’ll be feeling this Mars retrograde pretty personally. Because of that, it’s extra important for you to move slowly and pay attention to where you find yourself bumping up against the friction of frustration. This retrograde is bringing your attention to your perspective on the world and who you’re meant to be in it. As such, your focus needs to be brought towards what you build your sense of self upon and how you put that into action each day. In doing so, you may find yourself reconnecting with your greater calling in life in a way that allows you to find a meaningful path in your work and in your life.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius, for you this Mars retrograde is bringing about a spiritual reset. You may find your focus being pulled towards more shadowy aspects of yourself as this Mars retrograde demands you to confront the things that you struggle with deeply, even subconsciously. However, by allowing yourself to fully focus on those things and give them your full attention, you may find an innate ability to alchemize those shadows into tremendous strength and wisdom. You are a natural seeker of wisdom and truth, Sagittarius, and by sitting with the things that are hard to sit with, your creativity, wisdom, perspective, and intellect will flourish in ways that ignite the spark you need to allow your passions to move you forward.
Capricorn
Capricorn, for you this Mars retrograde is bringing your relationships to the forefront. What role does intimacy and vulnerability play in your relationships? Where do you need to slow down when it comes to the way your resources are intertwined with others in your life? You may find that in order for your relationships to move forward into 2025 in a steady and sustainable way, you need to bring your focus back to the foundations your relationships are built upon. It may be helpful to consider how you handle conflict in your relationships and where you can utilize the process of working through conflict as a means of strengthening your relationships.
Aquarius
Aquarius, for you this Mars retrograde is bringing your focus towards the relationships in your life and how you can create a better sense of nurturance and self-care through your daily routines. While these two things may seem pretty unrelated, it may be helpful to consider the role that others play in your day to day routines. Who do you interact with on a daily basis and in what capacity? Where do you need to enhance your boundaries in order to better nurture yourself, and where do you perhaps need to soften your boundaries in order to invite in more emotional connectivity in your day to day life? This Mars retrograde is ultimately asking you to slow down and consider what would bring a sense of emotional nurturance into your day to day life, which in turn, can also help you show up in your relationships more authentically and supportively.
Pisces
Pisces, this Mars retrograde is bringing your focus towards reinvigorating excitement in your mundane day to day. Where do things feel a little bit dry and stale, and how can you pull in practices and moments that foster your creativity and joy on an everyday basis? Pisces, you thrive best when you’re able to center your unique creativity and feel in touch with it at any given moment, so it should come as no surprise that losing sight of that creates a disconnect that has you moving through your day to day feeling unattached and unmotivated. By bringing your inner child and authentic sense of joy into focus, you stand to pull that sense of joy into your daily life in ways that encourage you to fully shine.