Weeks of heat, not a marriage stamp
Mars spends roughly six weeks in a rashi when it is moving steadily, longer when it slows or turns retrograde. Newspaper talk treats a Mars transit as a fight in the sky for everyone. Jyotish asks which house Mars is heating in your chart, whether it touches a natal graha, and whether a Mars dasha is already running. Mangal dosha is a natal matching topic, a different article on this site. A Mars transit is gochara. It does not make you manglik for a month, and it does not cancel a natal Mars.
What a Mars transit tends to touch
Mars signifies courage, anger, surgery, sport, machines, land, younger siblings, and decisive action. A transit through the first house can increase physical drive and directness. Through the tenth it may intensify ambition or technical work. Through the sixth it may support competition and service but can also relate to conflict or inflammation. Through the seventh it may increase attraction, impatience, or argument in partnership. The natal chart shows which outcomes are more likely.
Retrograde Mars is a longer season of the same
When Mars turns retrograde, it remains in a sign longer and may cross the same degrees more than once. This can bring a second stage of a conflict, a repeated effort, or work that needs revision. The transit still needs dasha context. A prominent Mars transit during a Venus period differs from the same transit during a Mars period because different natal results are active.
How to ask about a Mars transit here
A reading compares Mangala gochara with natal Mars, the houses involved, other current transits, and the active dasha. Bring your date, exact time, and place of birth, then ask about the conflict, surgery, property matter, work demand, anger, or physical effort you are experiencing now.
