Hello, my name is Christopher Rundstrom, and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on

Astrology Hub, and this time I wanted to talk to you about Mars coming out of retrograde on February

23rd and what it means now that Mars is moving direct in the sky.

Now, as I just said, Mars came out of retrograde in the zodiac sign of cancer

on February 23, 2025. Mars first turned retrograde on December 6th, 2024, in the zodiac sign of Leo.

Now, what you might have just noticed about what I said is that Mars has been traveling through

two zodiac signs.

In other words, if Mars turned retrograde in Leo in December of 2024, it has retrograded

back down from Leo into the sign that comes before Leo in the zodiac,

which is the zodiac sign of cancer.

Now, retrogrades with planets don't always take place between two zodiac signs.

There is 30 degrees that are attributed to each zodiac sign.

You multiply that by the number of signs,

which is 12, and you get 360 degrees. 360 degrees makes up a circle, which is the zodiacal wheel.

So Mars, usually if it turns retrograde in a sign, we'll retrograde back down a number of degrees,

still in the same sign, stop and then move forward again.

But in this particular instance, Mars turned retrograde in the early degrees of Leo,

six degrees Leo, to be precise.

And so it retrograded back down into the zodiac sign of cancer on January 6th.

So what does that mean for those of us who are following these sorts of things?

It's significant because of the involvement of two signs.

In other words, whatever was resolved in one sign as an action or a decision or a way to go

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