Mars governs drive, courage & conflict. A Mars transit is its movement through the sidereal zodiac — each sign change, retrograde and combustion colours how drive, courage & conflict plays out for everyone. Below are Mars's 9 moves in 2026; pick another year to the right.
| Date | Planet | Transit | Rāśi (sign) | Nakshatra · pada | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | ||||||
| Fri16Jan | Mars | Sign change | ♐︎ Sagittarius♑︎ Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha · 2 | ☀ Combust | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Sagittarius for Capricorn. |
| February | ||||||
| Mon23Feb | Mars | Sign change | ♑︎ Capricorn♒︎ Aquarius | Dhanishtha · 3 | ☀ Combust | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Capricorn for Aquarius. |
| March | ||||||
| Thu26Mar | Mars | Combust clears | Aquarius | Purva Bhadrapada · 2 | — | Mars steps clear of the Sun — its light, and its significations, return. |
| April | ||||||
| Thu2Apr | Mars | Sign change | ♒︎ Aquarius♓︎ Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada · 4 | — | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Aquarius for Pisces. |
| May | ||||||
| Mon11May | Mars | Sign change | ♓︎ Pisces♈︎ Aries | Ashwini · 1 | — | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Pisces for Aries. |
| June | ||||||
| Sun21Jun | Mars | Sign change | ♈︎ Aries♉︎ Taurus | Krittika · 2 | — | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Aries for Taurus. |
| August | ||||||
| Sun2Aug | Mars | Sign change | ♉︎ Taurus♊︎ Gemini | Mrigashira · 3 | — | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Taurus for Gemini. |
| September | ||||||
| Fri18Sep | Mars | Sign change | ♊︎ Gemini♋︎ Cancer | Punarvasu · 4 | — | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Gemini for Cancer. |
| November | ||||||
| Thu12Nov | Mars | Sign change | ♋︎ Cancer♌︎ Leo | Magha · 1 | — | A fresh chapter for drive, courage & conflict — Mars leaves Cancer for Leo. |
Every ingress (from → to), retrograde/direct station and combustion begin/end — computed from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The Status column carries a planet's ongoing retrograde / combustion until it changes. Dates are IST and may shift a day for your timezone.
The live transit board shows where every planet — the Moon included — is right now, on a gochar chart, and lets you step to any month or year.
Open the live transit board →It's Mars moving from one rāśi (and nakshatra) to the next in the sky. Because Mars rules drive, courage & conflict, its transits time shifts in those areas for everyone — sharpened when it stations retrograde or direct, or moves in and out of the Sun's combustion.
A transit is where a planet is in the sky at a given time, as opposed to where it was at your birth. Vedic astrology reads these moving positions — which sign and nakshatra each graha occupies, and whether it is retrograde or combust — to time the texture of a period.
A planet stays retrograde from its retrograde station until its direct station, and combust while it is within a few degrees of the Sun. The Status column flags that ongoing state on every event in between — so a sign change that happens while a planet is still retrograde is marked as such.
Positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides. The eight non-Moon grahas are listed (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu); the Moon changes sign every ~2¼ days, so it is shown on the live board instead.