The relational sign meets the open-conflict window. Avoidance gets harder.
Mars Retrograde for Libra is the rite of direct anger. You are wired for harmony, fairness, accommodation. Mars retrogrades and the buried anger — about a partner who has taken too much, a collaboration that has been quietly imbalanced, a self-erasure that has been rationalized as kindness — comes up. The trap is the Libra-specific one: performing fairness through clenched teeth, then discharging the anger sideways (passive-aggression, withdrawal, a comment to the wrong person). The gift, when you let the retrograde teach, is rare: ten weeks to learn that direct anger is not the end of the relationship; for the relationships that matter, it is often the beginning of the real one.
Performing fairness through clenched teeth instead of admitting you are angry, then discharging it sideways.
Ten weeks to learn that direct anger is not the end of the relationship — it is often the beginning of the real one.
You will feel relationships getting more delicate, and end the window with the ones that survived directness clearer than ever.
For 10 weeks, in every important conversation name your actual feeling before naming the fair compromise. Libra Mars survives by stated feeling first.