The sky on Sunday, January 10, 2027

Sun in	Capricorn
Moon in	Aquarius
Moon phase	Waxing Crescent
Illumination	6%
Stations	Mars stations retrograde
Mercury retrograde	No

Mars stations retrograde today, pausing before its long apparent backtrack. The Moon is in Aquarius, a young crescent growing in the evening sky.

What does Mars mean in astrology?

Mars is the planet of drive: effort, appetite, competition and the honest form of anger that tells you a boundary was crossed.

It takes about two years to go round the zodiac, so it spends roughly six or seven weeks in a sign, and much longer where it is retrograde. It rules Aries and, in the classical scheme Undersky uses, Scorpio as well.

Older texts describe Mars in blunt terms, and the modern reading is more useful: it is the capacity to push, cut and finish, which is as necessary as it is easy to misfire. Where Mars is loud, the question is what you are aiming it at.

A Mars contact is a description of energy available, never a statement that a conflict is coming. What gets done with it is a choice.