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Marie Curie

Marie Curie (born November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland, 12:00; died 1934), was a Polish-born French physicist and chemist. Curie is best remembered for Treatise on Radioactivity. Curie's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, John Scott Award and Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Marie Curie’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Marie Curie’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Marie in the U.S.?

#618

US rank in 2025

~542,270

Americans share it since 1880

1920

its peak year

The earliest American count for Marie is 1880, 13 years on: 55th, 471 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Marie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

5

Soul Urge · freedom

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Marie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 3 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets Marie apart

The record Marie Curie is measured by: Treatise on Radioactivity.

The schooling ran through 10th Secondary School named after Queen Jadwiga in Warsaw and Science Faculty of Paris.

The record gives aplastic anemia as the cause, and Panthéon as the resting place.

On the family side, Marie Curie was born to Bronisława Skłodowska and Władysław Skłodowski and raised 2 children.

Albert Camus (1913) and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
Treatise on Radioactivity
Educated at
10th Secondary School named after Queen Jadwiga in Warsaw, Science Faculty of Paris and Flying University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) and Davy Medal (1903)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics
Cause of death
aplastic anemia
Buried at
Panthéon
Citizenship
France and Russian Empire
Languages
French, German and Polish
Wikipedia editions
248

What the chart says

Marie, according to the stars

Core essence

Marie does not do surface. The core of Marie is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Marie is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Marie is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Marie needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How Marie wants to be loved

Marie wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Marie even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Marie creates

How Marie makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Marie creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Marie is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Marie is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Marie runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Marie's birth date. Working below.

Where Marie sits

Six lines

Marie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Marie

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Marie

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Marie

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Marie

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Marie

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Marie

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Warsaw at 12:00, Marie Curie’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Warsaw that night

Computed for 52.23°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Warsaw was Edasich, in Draco, 82.4° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

At 52.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Warsaw at all: they sit past the −37.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -21° below the horizon, Moon down and 77% lit at waxing gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Warsaw, Poland
Lived in
Paris · Warsaw

Wikidata records Paris and Warsaw as Marie Curie's home, Warsaw among them.

The death is recorded at Sancellemoz, Passy in 1934.

Against Warsaw, Shared Places reads Paris as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 84th of 172 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Durban, South Africa, at 100.

Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.

What Marie's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Minister 天相 in 巳

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4

Emotional authority · Split definition

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Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · Grand trine · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart.

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Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Marie Curie's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Fire Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 4

Plans, then plans the plan.

Marie Curie's birth date, November 7, 1867, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Marie’s chart

Marie’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.6° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.9° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 14°35′ · house 11☉14°Moon in Pisces · 16°29′ · house 3☽16°Mercury in Sagittarius · 6°38′ · house 12☿6°Venus in Scorpio · 25°34′ · house 11♀25°Mars in Scorpio · 29°37′ · house 11♂29°Jupiter in Aquarius · 28°00′ · house 2♃28°Saturn in Scorpio · 25°16′ · house 11♄25°Uranus in Cancer · 12°44′ · house 7 · retrograde♅℞12°Neptune in Aries · 12°51′ · house 4 · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Taurus · 15°08′ · house 5 · retrograde♇℞15°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCCap 12°04′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCCnc 12°04′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 18°37′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 18°37′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantCapricorn
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 0.1° orb

    Marie’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 0.3° orb

    Marie’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • SunoppositionPlutoapplying · 0.6° orb

    Marie’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 1.4° orb

  • MarssquareJupiterseparating · 1.6° orb

  • SuntrineUranusseparating · 1.8° orb

  • SuntrineMoonseparating · 1.9° orb

  • VenussquareJupiterapplying · 2.4° orb

  • UranussextilePlutoapplying · 2.4° orb

  • JupitersquareSaturnapplying · 2.7° orb

  • MoontrineUranusseparating · 3.8° orb

  • VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.0° orb

  • MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 4.3° orb

  • MercurytrineNeptuneapplying · 6.2° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 7.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Marie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 22°20′ · House 3

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 21°29′ · House 12

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLibra 21°01′ · House 10

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 6°14′ · House 2

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 16°13′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Moon 0.3°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.6°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 2.9°

Marie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars6.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Marie’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, Mars, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Sun, Moon, Uranus, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.1°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.7°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°

Marie’s houses

Marie’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1CapricornSaturn in Scorpio, house 11emptyself, body, how you arrive
2AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 7Jupitermoney, possessions, self-worth
3PiscesNeptune in Aries, house 4Moonmind, siblings, the local world
4AriesMars in Scorpio, house 11Neptunehome, family, roots
5TaurusVenus in Scorpio, house 11Plutocreativity, romance, play
6GeminiMercury in Sagittarius, house 12emptywork, habits, health
7CancerMoon in Pisces, house 3Uranuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LeoSun in Scorpio, house 11emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9VirgoMercury in Sagittarius, house 12emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10LibraVenus in Scorpio, house 11emptycareer, reputation, public life
11ScorpioPluto in Taurus, house 5Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturnfriends, community, the future
12SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 2Mercurythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Marie’s family here

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Marie’s cards

Computed from November 7, 1867. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

4 · Architect

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Marie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q7186 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Marie Curie.

Quick answers about Marie Curie’s chart

What zodiac sign was Marie Curie?
Marie Curie was a Scorpio: born November 7, 1867, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What was Marie Curie's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1867 birth.
What time was Marie Curie born?
12:00 local time in Warsaw, Poland, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Marie Curie's rising sign?
Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 12:00 birth time in Warsaw, Poland (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Marie Curie's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Marie Curie's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 22°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Marie Curie's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 16°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Marie Curie's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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