Mars's ruling sign. The engine of the chart goes inward — and you feel every degree of the shift.
Mars Retrograde for Aries is the deepest version of the rite — Mars is your ruler. The engine you live by goes into reverse, and you feel every degree of the shift. The trap is the Aries-specific one: picking the fight to make the friction tolerable, firing off the angry message that, in week six, you would have written differently. The gift, when you let the retrograde teach, is rare: ten weeks to feel anger without immediately discharging it. To learn the difference between reactive force (something happens, you swing) and chosen force (you have felt the anger, named it, decided what to do with it). The post-retrograde Aries is not less fierce; the fierceness is sharper, more decisive, more aimed.
Picking the fight in week one to make the friction tolerable. Acting on anger that will look different in week six.
Ten weeks to learn the difference between reactive force and chosen force. The post-retrograde Aries fights cleaner.
You will feel the engine has been taken away and discover the engine was being re-built into something stronger.
For the full 10 weeks, run a 24-hour rule on every angry send. Aries Mars survives by enforced delay-on-discharge.