A planet's house is read at the recorded birth time.
By Málaga's local clock, Kark rose at 10:09 pm, so an 11:15 pm birth sits well inside it. Mercury and Rahu share this house with the Moon. He worked in painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics and stage design.
The Moon had moved from Vishakha into Anuradha at about 12:46 am, almost a full day before his birth. Saturn rules Anuradha. In his chart Saturn sits in the tenth house of career.
The Sun held Tula all day. The Sun's weakness is cancelled by the classical rule. Saturn, which is at its strongest in Tula, sits in a kendra, one of the four main houses. He spent most of his adult life in France.
Saturn's weakness is cancelled by the classical rule too. The Sun, which is at its strongest in Mesh, sits in the fourth house of home, also a kendra or main house. So the Sun and Saturn each lift the other.
Venus held Kanya all day. Venus's weakness is cancelled by the classical rule. Mercury, lord of Kanya, is in the Moon's own sign. That counts as a kendra, one of the four main houses, from the Moon. With Georges Braque, he developed Cubism.
Pablo Picasso's chart rises in Kark (Cancer), the Moon's own sign. Its ruler, the Moon, sits in the fifth house of creativity, in Vrishchik (Scorpio), in the same sign as Mercury and Rahu.
The Sun, Venus and Saturn are each in their weakest sign, and the classical rule cancels each of those weaknesses. The Moon is in its weakest sign too, and gets no such relief. His Moon is in Anuradha nakshatra.
He trained under his father, a painter, as a child in Spain. In Paris he went on to help found Cubism. He kept working until his death at 91. The chart is read here beside that record, not offered as its cause.
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| Planet | Rashi | Degree | Nakshatra | House | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lagna | Kark | 13.44° | Pushya, pada 4 | 1 | |
| Sun | Tula | 10.50° | Swati, pada 2 | 4 | debilitated |
| Moon | Vrishchik | 16.01° | Anuradha, pada 4 | 5 | debilitated |
| Mars | Mithun | 20.14° | Punarvasu, pada 1 | 12 | |
| Mercury | Vrishchik | 2.03° | Vishakha, pada 4 | 5 | |
| Jupiter | Vrishabh | 1.35° | Krittika, pada 2 | 11 | retrograde |
| Venus | Kanya | 12.32° | Hasta, pada 1 | 3 | debilitated |
| Saturn | Mesh | 17.25° | Bharani, pada 2 | 10 | retrogradedebilitated |
| Rahu | Vrishchik | 18.62° | Jyeshtha, pada 1 | 5 | retrogradedebilitated |
| Ketu | Vrishabh | 18.62° | Rohini, pada 3 | 11 | retrogradedebilitated |
Read at the recorded birth time. Those marked "all day" hold whatever the time.
| Mahadasha | Starts | Ends |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 25 October 1881 | 4 October 1882 |
| Mercury | 4 October 1882 | 4 October 1899 |
| Ketu | 4 October 1899 | 4 October 1906 |
| Venus | 4 October 1906 | 4 October 1926 |
| Sun | 4 October 1926 | 4 October 1932 |
| Moon | 4 October 1932 | 4 October 1942 |
| Mars | 4 October 1942 | 4 October 1949 |
| Rahu | 4 October 1949 | 4 October 1967 |
| Jupiter | 4 October 1967 | 4 October 1983 |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 February 1901 | His close friend, the painter Carles Casagemas, takes his own life in Paris | Ketu | Venus |
| 14 December 1915 | His partner Eva Gouel dies of tuberculosis | Venus | Rahu |
| 18 May 1917 | The ballet Parade opens in Paris, with his sets and costumes | Venus | Jupiter |
| 12 July 1918 | Marries the ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova in Paris | Venus | Jupiter |
| 4 June 1937 | Finishes Guernica, painted after the bombing of the Basque town | Moon | Saturn |
| 9 January 1949 | Creates Dove, a black and white lithograph | Mars | — |
| 2 March 1961 | Marries Jacqueline Roque in Vallauris | Rahu | — |
| 8 April 1973 | Dies at Mougins, in the south of France | Jupiter | Mercury |
Two sub-periods here are left blank: a birth time 15 minutes either way would change them.
Venus's long period, from about 1906 to 1926, holds Parade and his first marriage. It also holds the death of Eva Gouel. Venus sits in his third house of effort and skill of the hands.
Guernica falls in the Moon's long period, from about 1932 to 1942. The Moon rules his rising sign and sits in his fifth house of creativity. The same period holds 1935, when he sought a divorce that Olga Khokhlova refused.
