Marie Curie birth chart.
Physicist and chemist — Nobel Prizes in both.
The data behind this chart. Born November 7, 1867 at 12:00, Warsaw, Poland. Source: Astrodatabank, Rodden rating A (personal report). This atlas publishes only charts whose birth data carries an Astrodatabank Rodden rating of AA or A — birth records and personal reports, never fan-wiki estimates. Everything below is computed from those inputs by the observatory engine; nothing is copied from another reading.
The Big Three
- Sun in Scorpio at 14°35′ — house 11
- Moon in Pisces at 16°29′ — house 3
- Capricorn Rising at 12°03′ — chart ruler Saturn
This is a Scorpio Sun, Pisces Moon, Capricorn Rising chart — a day-sect chart, so the Sun leads and Jupiter is the benefic of sect.
Timeline
Marie Curie’s natal chart on the Dial, from birth to death: the sky of any day of the life as a transit ring around the natal wheel, the transits in orb as bars with their entering, exact and leaving dates, the annual profection as the time-lord band, and the day’s reading in plain words. Drag the track, tap a pinned event or a bar, or use the arrow keys.
Reading the year's sky events…
Method
The first clause is the sky event nearest the shown instant in its year: a planet entering a sign, a station (a planet turning retrograde or direct), or a new or full Moon. Eclipses are not on this strip yet.
Motion: daily samples from the engine, interpolated within 0.0005° of it. Exact contacts across the site are measured with one orb table, by transiting body:
| Body | Orb |
|---|---|
| Sun | 2.0° |
| Moon | 2.0° |
| Mercury | 1.5° |
| Venus | 1.5° |
| Mars | 1.5° |
| Jupiter | 1.2° |
| Saturn | 1.0° |
| Uranus | 0.8° |
| Neptune | 0.8° |
| Pluto | 0.8° |
| North Node | 1.0° |
1867–1934 · drag the track, tap an event, or use the arrow keys (N and P for the next and previous event)
Tap a planet or a sign on the wheel.
Rodden A · Astrodatabank, Rodden rating A (personal report) · Born November 7, 1867 at 12:00, Warsaw, Poland. Events below are dated public record, each with the page it was checked against; their pins sit at noon UTC because no event here carries a verified hour.
- Sagittarius · 12th house
- Capricorn · 1st house
Method
- Zodiac: tropical. North Node: the true (osculating) node; the South Node is opposite it.
- Annual profection: one sign a year from the Ascendant, each year running solar return to solar return; the sign's ruler is the year's time lord.
- Transit orbs: Sun 2.0°, Moon 2.0°, Mercury 1.5°, Venus 1.5°, Mars 1.5°, Jupiter 1.2°, Saturn 1.0°, Uranus 0.8°, Neptune 0.8°, Pluto 0.8°, North Node 1.0°.
Jupiter, in Pisces, the sign it rules, opens a window onto your Pluto in Taurus in the 5th house of children, pleasure, and what you make. The horizon opens out for a while. At stake is your grip on things. A light breeze links possibility to control and influence; it favours a first small move. It is the late sextile of this cycle. Through the 3rd and 12th it rules, siblings and errands and retreat are part of the picture. It is gathering: exact in 4 days, the third of three passes. What would help you express a concern without trying to determine the response?Jupiter sextile natal Pluto · within 1.2° · whole-sign houses, traditional rulers · phase read from the sky at the instant · a symbolic reading of the geometry, not a forecast
Jupiter, in Pisces, the sign it rules, trines your natal Sun (Scorpio; 11th house, friends, allies, and hopes). The horizon opens out for a while. This is where you choose what counts. Possibility and personal priorities keep the same rhythm for now. It is the opening trine of this cycle. Through the 3rd and 12th it rules, siblings and errands and retreat are part of the picture. It is fading: exact 5 days ago, in orb until 17 December. Which part of a recent task felt meaningful enough to make room for again?Jupiter trine natal Sun · within 1.2° · whole-sign houses, traditional rulers · phase read from the sky at the instant · a symbolic reading of the geometry, not a forecast
Mercury, working against the grain in Sagittarius, sextiles your natal Jupiter (Aquarius; 2nd house, livelihood, possessions, and self-worth). Busy air: talk, plans, paperwork. The ground here is what you believe and hope for. A light breeze links curiosity to learning and growth; it favours a first small move. It is the returning sextile of this cycle. As ruler of your 6th and 9th, it also brings daily work and travel and study in. Louder than usual: Mercury rules your current long period in the Vedic count. The gap is closing: exact in 0 days. What small question could you explore about a topic that interests you?Mercury sextile natal Jupiter · within 1.5° · whole-sign houses, traditional rulers · phase read from the sky at the instant · a symbolic reading of the geometry, not a forecast
- Marries Pierre Curie in Sceauxsource
- The discovery of radium is announced to the Académie des Sciencessource
- Receives the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerelsource
- Pierre Curie dies in a street accident in Parissource
- Receives the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistrysource
- Dies at the Sancellemoz sanatorium, Passysource
Turning points against ordinary days
Any astrology site will tell you what the sky was doing on a famous day, and there is always something: a slow planet or the lunar node is within orb of some point in a chart on a large share of the days of any life. So here is the count for Marie Curie’s five dated events above, beside the rate it has to beat: how often the same body was in orb on an ordinary day of the same life.
At 4 of 5 of the events, Saturn was in orb of a point in the chart; on an ordinary day of the life it was 40% of the time, about 2.0 of 5 expected. Chance alone does at least that well about 1 time in 11.
| Body | At the events | Ordinary day | Chance alone does as well |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 3 of 5 | 43% (2.1 expected) | about 1 time in 3 |
| Saturn | 4 of 5 | 40% (2.0 expected) | about 1 time in 11 |
| Uranus | 1 of 5 | 35% (1.8 expected) | more often than not |
| Neptune | 1 of 5 | 32% (1.6 expected) | more often than not |
| Pluto | 2 of 5 | 26% (1.3 expected) | about 1 time in 3 |
| North Node | 0 of 5 | 11% (0.5 expected) | more often than not |
Across all seven lives on the observatory (36 dated events), the body furthest above its ordinary-day rate is North Node: in orb at 6 of 36 events against 4.3 expected, which chance alone matches about 1 time in 4. Seven lives and six bodies make 42 comparisons, and chance alone gives about two of them a 1-in-20 look on average; here two do.
A few famous dates cannot show that the sky shapes a life, and the largest study of people born minutes apart found effect sizes near zero (how we date a transit). What this table shows is the method: on this site, a contact comes with the rate it has to beat.
Method
In orb means inside the engine’s orb of one of the chart’s twelve points (the ten planets, the Ascendant and the Midheaven) by conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition: the bars of the timeline above, for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the North Node. Each event is read at noon UTC of its day, because none carries a verified hour. The day the life ended is not read (one event left out). The ordinary-day rate is the share of every moment from birth to death with at least one contact of the body in orb (Pluto only from 1885, where its series starts). “Chance alone” is the probability that the same number of moments picked at random from the life would land in orb at least as often (binomial; pooled over the lives, each event at its own life’s rate).
The contacts at each event
- Marries Pierre Curie in Sceaux: Uranus opposite natal Pluto; Uranus trine natal Moon; Neptune square natal Moon; Pluto sextile natal Neptune.
- The discovery of radium is announced to the Académie des Sciences: Saturn square natal Moon.
- Receives the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel: Jupiter sextile natal Pluto; Jupiter trine natal Sun; Saturn sextile natal Mercury.
- Pierre Curie dies in a street accident in Paris: Jupiter opposite natal Mercury; Saturn sextile natal Ascendant.
- Receives the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Jupiter conjunct natal Mars; Saturn conjunct natal Pluto; Saturn opposite natal Sun; Pluto trine natal Jupiter.
All ten placements
- Sun in Scorpio at 14°35′, house 11
- Moon in Pisces at 16°29′, house 3
- Mercury in Sagittarius at 6°38′, house 12 — detriment
- Venus in Scorpio at 25°35′, house 11 — detriment
- Mars in Scorpio at 29°37′, house 11 — domicile
- Jupiter in Aquarius at 28°00′, house 2
- Saturn in Scorpio at 25°17′, house 11
- Uranus in Cancer at 12°44′, house 7, retrograde
- Neptune in Aries at 12°51′, house 4, retrograde
- Pluto in Taurus at 15°23′, house 5, retrograde
Condition and emphasis
- On the angles: Uranus, Neptune — planets in angular houses carry the loudest voice in a chart.
- Mars is essentially dignified (net +5: domicile).
- Mercury is essentially debilitated (net -4: decan, detriment).
- Near-exact aspects: Uranus square Neptune (0.1°); Moon sextile Lilith (0.3°); Venus conjunction Saturn (0.3°); Sun opposition Pluto (0.8°); Pluto trine Lilith (0.8°).
- Chart shape: Planets span two-thirds of the wheel, leaving one-third empty — the 'locomotive' is the leading planet pulling the cargo behind it. Self-driven, forward-directed.
Fixed-star contacts
Uranus conjoins Sirius — The Dog Star, magnitude -1.5, of Jupiter/Mars — fame, success, passion nature — within 0.5° of arc.
The Vedic view
Sidereal (Lahiri ayanamsa, 22.01° subtracted from the tropical longitudes): Sun in Tula (Libra), Moon in Kumbha (Aquarius), Dhanu (Sagittarius) rising. The Moon occupies Purva Bhadra nakshatra, pada 2, ruled by Jupiter — the lunar mansion that opens the Vimshottari dasha sequence.
The BaZi view
Four Pillars: year 丁卯, month 庚戌, day 辛卯, hour 甲午. The Day Master is 辛 (Metal), year of the 兔; Metal leads the five-element tally.
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