Mars (Mangal) Transit Dates — Next 12 Months

The direct answer: Mars (Mangal) Transit Dates — Next 12 Months: Vedic Mars (Mangal) transit schedule for the next 12 months — sign entries, retrograde periods, sign lord, and dwell duration. Sidereal Swiss Ephemeris. AskSoma publishes this at asksoma.ai/panchang/planets/mars as a free Vedic astrology resource using Swiss Ephemeris calculations and classical Jyotish interpretation — not generic sun-sign copy.

Vedic Mars (Mangal) transit schedule for the next 12 months — sign entries, retrograde periods, sign lord, and dwell duration. Sidereal Swiss Ephemeris.

How to read this page

The positions shown are sidereal, calculated with the Lahiri ayanamsa — the standard used across Indian panchang. They update daily from live ephemeris data rather than from a fixed table, so the sign and degree shown are the current ones, not an approximation.

Mangal exalts at 28° Capricorn — the highest exaltation degree in the table

Mars owns Aries and Scorpio, and takes its moolatrikona in Aries. Its exaltation is the outlier of the seven: 28° of Capricorn, further into a sign than any other graha’s peak. Only the last two degrees of Capricorn hold a fully exalted Mars, and the fall answers at 28° of Cancer.

That extremity has a practical consequence people miss. A Mars in early Capricorn is in the sign of its exaltation and nowhere near the point of it, so "exalted Mars" without a degree is close to meaningless — the engine scores the distance, not the label.

Seven years of the Vimshottari cycle are Mars’s, tied with Ketu and second-shortest after the Sun, and it averages forty-five days in a sign.

Mrigashira, Chitra and Dhanishta answer to Mars

Mars rules Mrigashira, Chitra and Dhanishta. All three straddle a sign boundary rather than sitting inside one — Mrigashira spans Taurus into Gemini, Chitra Virgo into Libra, Dhanishta Capricorn into Aquarius. Mars is the only lord whose three nakshatras all do this.

The practical effect is that a Mars-dasha birth can carry a Moon in either of two rashis while the clock reads the same, which is one of the commonest sources of two astrologers disagreeing about a chart they have both computed correctly.

Mars is the yogakaraka for Cancer and for Leo

From a Cancer ascendant Mars owns the 5th and the 10th; from a Leo ascendant it owns the 4th and the 9th. Each of those pairs is one trine and one angle, and a graha holding both at once is a yogakaraka — outright the best planet in that chart, whatever its natural reputation.

That reputation is the point. Mars is a natural malefic and it makes no difference at all from these two ascendants, where its gemstone is prescribable and its period is the one people wait for. From Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Capricorn and Aquarius the same planet is graded a functional malefic and the stone is refused in code.

Where Mars is, and when it next changes sign

Position when this page was last built: 3.3° of Cancer (Karka), sidereal, Lahiri ayanamsa. The live panel above recomputes for the instant you load the page, so the two will differ once the graha has moved.

No forward ingress date is stated here. At 45 days per sign the graha moves fast enough that a printed date would be stale before most readers arrived; the panel above is the place to read it.

What this page can and cannot tell you

What this page cannot do: it has no birth time, so it cannot place a single graha in a single house of a real chart, and nothing here is a reading. Everything above is structural — it is true of the sign or the graha itself, for everybody, and it stays true next year. A chart turns that structure into an answer only once a date, a time and a place fix the ascendant and the dasha clock; where the birth time is unknown or approximate, the ascendant is unreliable and we say so rather than guessing.

Manglik questions are the ones this page cannot touch. Whether Mars sits in the houses that raise the dosha depends on an ascendant and a house count, not on anything true of Mars in general.