A planet's house is read at the recorded birth time.
The Moon reached Purva Bhadrapada at about 3:29 am, more than eight hours before her birth. Jupiter rules this nakshatra. In her chart Jupiter shares the Moon's sign, Kumbh (Aquarius).
By Warsaw's local clock, Dhanu rose from 10:35 am to 12:33 pm, so a noon birth sits inside it. The third house is read as the work of one's own hands. She and Pierre Curie announced the discovery of radium on 26 December 1898.
Mercury, Venus and Saturn join Mars in Vrishchik, so four planets crowd this house. Mars is combust there, so close to the Sun that its glare weakens it. She left Warsaw for Paris and built her scientific career in France.
The Sun held Tula all day, so the sign is certain for any birth hour. By the classical rule that weakness is cancelled (Neech Bhang). The reason is that Venus, lord of Tula, sits in a kendra from the Moon, one of the four main houses counted from it. Her first Nobel Prize, in physics in 1903, was shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel.
Marie Curie's chart rises in Dhanu (Sagittarius). Warsaw then kept its own local clock, and by it Dhanu rose from 10:35 am to 12:33 pm. Her recorded noon birth falls in the later half of that window.
Jupiter, ruler of the rising sign, sits in the third house of effort, with the Moon, in Kumbh (Aquarius). Four planets gather in Vrishchik (Scorpio), in the twelfth house of faraway lands: Mars, Mercury, Venus and Saturn. Mars is in its own sign there.
The Sun is in Tula (Libra), its weakest sign, though by the classical rule that weakness is cancelled (Neech Bhang). Her Moon is in Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra. She won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. The chart is read here beside that record, not offered as its cause.
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| Planet | Rashi | Degree | Nakshatra | House | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lagna | Dhanu | 20.03° | Purva Ashadha, pada 3 | 1 | |
| Sun | Tula | 22.57° | Vishakha, pada 1 | 11 | debilitated |
| Moon | Kumbh | 24.47° | Purva Bhadrapada, pada 2 | 3 | |
| Mars | Vrishchik | 7.61° | Anuradha, pada 2 | 12 | combust |
| Mercury | Vrishchik | 14.62° | Anuradha, pada 4 | 12 | |
| Jupiter | Kumbh | 6.00° | Dhanishtha, pada 4 | 3 | |
| Venus | Vrishchik | 3.56° | Anuradha, pada 1 | 12 | |
| Saturn | Vrishchik | 3.27° | Vishakha, pada 4 | 12 | combust |
| Rahu | Simha | 18.96° | Purva Phalguni, pada 2 | 9 | retrograde |
| Ketu | Kumbh | 18.96° | Shatabhisha, pada 4 | 3 | retrograde |
Read at the recorded birth time. Those marked "all day" hold whatever the time.
| Mahadasha | Starts | Ends |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 7 November 1867 | 26 June 1878 |
| Saturn | 26 June 1878 | 26 June 1897 |
| Mercury | 26 June 1897 | 26 June 1914 |
| Ketu | 26 June 1914 | 26 June 1921 |
| Venus | 26 June 1921 | 26 June 1941 |
| Sun | 26 June 1941 | 26 June 1947 |
| Moon | 26 June 1947 | 26 June 1957 |
| Mars | 26 June 1957 | 26 June 1964 |
| Rahu | 26 June 1964 | 26 June 1982 |
A mahadasha is a long planetary period that lasts several years. An antardasha is a shorter sub-period inside it.
| Date | Milestone | Mahadasha (main period) | Antardasha (sub-period) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 1895 | Marries the physicist Pierre Curie at Sceaux | Saturn | Jupiter |
| 26 December 1898 | With Pierre Curie, announces the discovery of radium | Mercury | Mercury |
| 19 April 1906 | Pierre Curie is killed in a street accident in Paris | Mercury | Mars |
| 13 May 1906 | Accepts Pierre's physics chair at the Sorbonne, its first woman professor | Mercury | Mars |
| 4 July 1934 | Dies at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in the French Alps | Venus | Saturn |
Every main period and every sub-period here holds even with a birth time 15 minutes either way.
Radium and the Sorbonne chair both fall in Mercury's long period, from 1897 to 1914. Mercury is one of the four planets in her twelfth house of faraway lands.
She died in the sub-period of Saturn, inside the long period of Venus.
