Leo Factors? Relationship Rewind...
Mars Retrograde in Leo Spins Lovers, Partners and Children Around.
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING IN LEO IN YOUR ASTROLOGY CHART then you have been rehearsing and reversing for months. Your love life or your parenting has been affected since last November, 2024.
From Saturday 19th April until May 4th 2025 (starts soon) you enter the last phase of this endless rewind with courtship, the bedroom, babies, children, teenagers or young adults.
At the end of this feature I’ll show you exactly how Mars Retrograde in Leo started last year - and when it stops. We teach simple astrology basics for beginners, at The Sun Sign School if you need more.
Factors at 0-5 Leo?
It’s been more extreme for you, if you have personal horoscope factors at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Leo.
Barack Obama has that in his chart (are he and Michelle divorcing or not?) When ABC News picks up your wife, in happy denial mode, you just know Mars Retrograde went over your Mercury in Leo, in the Fifth House of marriage. (Video: YouTube/ABC News).
The Good News
The good news is, I can give you an end point in all cases for the rewind, replay, rescheduling. So that’s 4th May, 2025.
This long Mars Retrograde in Leo, in your Fifth House of sexual relationships, dating - and the younger generation in your life - has affected the normal course of events with godchildren, partners, former partners, sons and daughters and lovers.
It’s affected child custody and love triangles. Affairs. Dating and divorce. Adoption and IVF.
Mars Retrograde in Leo, the sign that rules courtship, the royal bedchamber, heirs, spares and pretenders to your throne has been like a stuck record.
Stop-start and then rewind. Reverse and stuck needle. Round and round you go…But May 4th ends it. Please don’t believe Google AI, it has no idea.
We’re Engaged! Wait. We’re Already Engaged?
If you, your partner, children, stepchildren, godchildren or former partner has factors at 0-6 degrees, then this entire story since November has been about backwards-and-forwards, rewind and it will take you weeks to sort it.
MICK JAGGER HAS HIS SUN AT 2 LEO. He’s just announced his engagement, despite having been engaged to Melanie Hamrick… for three years. What?
This long Mars cycle began on November 5th 2024 with Mars at 0 Leo, turned on December 7th with Mars at 6 Leo, turned again on January 6th with Mars at 0 Leo, then stopped.* Then on May 4th, Mars in Leo clears the circuit. It passes 6 Leo again and life moves forwards.
If you or the other person has Leo factors, particularly at 0-6, momentum and normal scheduling/sanity/clarity returns from May 4th and by the end of the Mars in Leo cycle on June 17th, you’ll know if it’s yes or no, fast or slow.
Examples From Readers With Leo Factors
Classic examples of Mars Retrograde in Leo? Well, scanning the thousands of questions on my website about this, it would seem -
People don’t get back to you about your separation. Plans for your stepdaughter are made, then unmade. Your husband goes for Viagra then he doesn’t. There have been even more serious issues affecting readers with Leo chart factors, too. Child custody. Puberty blockers (God help those children).
Teenage boys are bisexual, then gay, then straight on this transit. The children from the first marriage celebrate the new boyfriend, then change their minds. I’m sure you have a story, if you have Leo factors.
Rewind, Rethink, Reschedule
In fact like Mercury Retrograde, Mars Retrograde is action (which Mars rules) with the ‘re’ prefix in front of it. Mercury rules communication and when retrograde, you see backwards communication.
Mars rules competition, contests, battles, assertiveness, pushing, defending, attacking, raising the heat, charging in, butting heads…the battering ram is Mars. It’s wholly unsuitable when in Leo because nobody really needs that with their son, or the mother of their daughter, or their former girlfriend.
Even if your Leo factors are over 6 degrees (7 to 29) you will still feel the background ‘reversal and rewind’ of this cycle, rather like hearing a stuck record in the background in your bedroom, or in your child’s bedroom. You hear the noise, even if it’s not at high volume in your ear. People with Leo patterns now are picking up the backwards tracking.
By the way, if you don’t have your modern astrology chart, you can pick one up here from my website, to check. It may explain a lot, if you have had unresolved (or disappearing act) issues with old girlfriends, say, or children. Look to Leo and the Fifth House. In the Natural Astrology chart system, this is about the dating game, the bedroom, babies, infants, schoolchildren, teenagers and Generation Z. It can affect you like a free-frame. So if you’re a grandfather hoping to see more of your grandchildren, it may be that life got in the way. Mars Retrograde is suspended animation. And often, suspense.
The Dates You Need to Know
As I’ve mentioned, just ignore Google AI which is hopelessly wrong about astrology. Stupid computers!
Mars Retrograde in Leo did not start on December 6th last year and did not stop on February 23rd. It has a pre and post period, just like Mercury Retrograde.
If you’re waiting for a sperm donor, you clear the waiting game in May. If you’re wondering if your former girlfriend will ever make her mind up about her new fiancee, wonder no more - in May 2025.
Check the Ephemeris
The dates you need to know are in the (free) ephemeris put out by Alois Treindl at Astro.com, the internet’s best astrology website. If you need to know how to read it, hit my website. Or - I can answer a few questions here on Substack over the next day or two.
Meghan and her Jam
Sometimes astrology plays tricks. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been telling us about her jam. Her astrology chart says she’s also in a jam with Prince Harry and the children. A log jam or traffic jam. A Mars Retrograde. She has those Leo factors.
Harry’s gone to Ukraine. However, he’s also challenging the decision to downgrade his UK security protection, at London's Court of Appeal. "The UK is my home," he told the High Court in December 2023. "The UK is central to the heritage of my children. That cannot happen if it's not possible to keep them safe."
Harry has Bacchus at 2 Leo and Apollo at 6 Leo. Mars has been going backwards over both those; this goes on until May. Meghan has the North Node at Leo and Mercury at 5 Leo.
Factors at 1, 2, 3 Leo?
Madonna has Venus at 0 Leo. She’s dating footballer Akeem Morris. So will the footballer become a stepfather to her six children - or not? As Mars went over her Venus, the question has lingered longer. It comes back on April 19th, 20th - let’s see if it becomes public, in a week or so.
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING AT 1, 2, 3 LEO in your Fifth House of romancing and parenting, dating, mating, relating - and separating - then you also have Pluto at 1, 2, 3 Aquarius in 2025, right opposite. That’s historic.
That can only happen every 248 years so this is big for you. Intense!
Transiting Pluto in opposition to any horoscope factor, is ‘the challenge to change’ and this is specifically about a younger generation in your life, and/or the steps to the bedroom. Take your time with it and take good advice. If you would like to add the Tarot and Modern I Ching to your decision-making process, they are here to use.
Backwards Leo Cycles Explained
This is something we teach at The Sun Sign School: simple, basic astrology for absolute beginners.
Once you understand how Mars Retrograde actually works, it’s easy. To start with, understand that the whole retrograde cycle is a loop, or circuit.
A lot of our students think Mars Retrograde (like Mercury Retrograde) starts on the day the planet appears to go backwards and stops, when it appears to go forwards.
This leads to wrong predictions. If you want to get it right, factor in the entire loop. Like so - a lion walking backwards - over the same path he took before.
How It All Began In 2024
November 5th to December 5th 2024
Mars begins at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Leo
December 7th 2024 to January 6th 2025
Mars appears to go backwards, moving across 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Leo.
April 19th to May 4th 2025
Mars retraces his steps at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Leo for the last time.
So…if the man in your life swung into action with a plan to buy an apartment with you last November, December (which didn’t happen) and if the issue came back in January (again, it went nowhere) - you will finally nail a decision either way, by May 4th. And maybe the Obamas will conclusively end those rumours…
*Always allow +/- 24 hours for dates, factoring in global time zone differences.
This makes a lot of sense thank you Jessica 😊
Hi Jessica, So insightful as usual, I have Pluto 6 degrees Leo, so I guess it will be a generational thing in my case.