Mars's traditional ruling sign. The buried anger, power, and sexual force surface — handle with care.
Mars Retrograde for Scorpio is one of the most demanding versions of the rite — Mars is your traditional ruler. Buried anger surfaces. Buried power-truths surface. Sexual force re-routes. The trap is the Scorpio one: acting on a revenge-impulse or power-move in week one, before the truth has fully loaded. Confronting before week three or four is rarely the right call. The gift is the depth-work this sign was made for: a careful audit of where you have been mis-using power (over a partner, in a workplace dynamic, against yourself) and where you have been giving it away (intimacy, money, energy). The post-retrograde Scorpio holds power more cleanly.
Acting on revenge-impulses or power-moves in week one based on truths that need more time to settle.
Ten weeks for the depth-work this sign does best: the audit of where you have been mis-using power and where you have been giving it away.
You will feel ready to act in week one and discover that the picture in week ten was different and the right move was clearer.
For 10 weeks, when an intense impulse arises, document and wait one full week before acting. Scorpio Mars survives by intensity-without-discharge.