The discerning sign meets the over-correction engine. Watch the inner critic on action and self-worth.
Mars Retrograde for Virgo is two-edged. The Virgo discipline — careful re-tune of work and body — is exactly what the retrograde is asking for. The Virgo trap — over-correction, self-attack, the 3am list of every imperfection — is exactly what the retrograde will amplify if you do not watch. The trap is the spiral: the useful audit becomes self-attack, the body that needs rest gets pushed harder, the work that needs a redesign gets a punishment-level intensification instead. The gift, with the inner critic on a leash, is real: ten weeks to redesign work-rhythm and body practice on terms that compound for decades, not quarters.
Turning the retrograde's useful re-read of your work into a list of everything you have done wrong all year.
Ten weeks to redesign your work-rhythm and physical practice on actually sustainable terms.
You will feel everything needs fixing. By week ten you will know that fixing one or two things well changed everything else.
For 10 weeks, run one bounded ten-minute "edit window" per day on the system that needs it most. Virgo Mars survives by bounded reform.