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Marie Curie's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Physicist and chemist, two-time Nobel laureate · born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland

The first scientist to win the Nobel Prize twice. In her chart, the Life Palace and the Body Palace both sit in Tian Xiang (De), a star of measured judgement and of shouldering what needs to be done.

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Leaders · Tian Xiang1867 · M10 D12 · Wu hour
YearDingMao
MonthGengXu
DayXinMao
HourJiaWu
Life Master Wu Qu
Body Master Tian Tong

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Life Palace

You're decent, know your place and value fairness, often mediating between people.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

You're decent, know your place and value fairness, often mediating between people.

With Tian Xiang meeting challenging stars and Po Jun opposite, you stiffen once your principles are stepped on.

Stars
Tian Xiang NatureYou are fair-minded and good at bringing people together, someone others trust. While you look out for everyone, keep your own view too.
Tian XiangHowever chaotic things get, you keep your principles; your generous, steady nature holds. Food and clothing won't run short.
Tuo Luo at XianClassical texts say Tuo Luo in Yin, Shen, Si or Hai brings, if not a life cut short, then injury. Today, it means you're prone to bumps and knocks, so don't rush to force your way through.“Star Combinations: Qing Yang and Tuo Luo”
Life Master Wu QuDeep down you are practical and hardworking, and you believe only results count. Leave some room for feelings too. Your Life Master sits in your Travel Palace, so your thoughts often circle around travel and social settings.
Body Master Tian TongThe older you get, the more you want comfort and ease. Enjoy it, but do not let comfort hold you back. Your Body Master sits in your Friends Palace, so much of your later effort goes into your circle of friends.
Patterns
Helpful TrinesSan Fang Si Zheng brings in Tian Kui, Tian Yue, Zuo Fu and You Bi: you have help and resources in your own life, more than this palace alone suggests.
This part follows the Flying Star school: where this palace's stem sends its transformations. It is a different method from the classical reading above.
Lu to ChildrenThe palace stem sends Tian Ji Hua Lu into your Children Palace: what your effort brings often ends up with children and younger people.
Ji to ChildrenThe palace stem sends Tai Yin Hua Ji into your Children Palace: when it comes to your own affairs, your concern often ends up with children and younger people.
Auxiliary Stars
Tian MaYou were born unable to sit still, and your life unfolds through moving and trying things. The more willing you are to change scenery, the more opportunities you meet.
Minor Stars
Gu ChenYou are good at being alone and used to working through things by yourself. When someone asks how you are, try telling the truth.
Tian ChuYou know good food and how to enjoy it, and one great meal restores you. Eat well and your mood follows.

The Life Palace is about: Who you are at the core: your temperament and innate makeup. Every chart reading starts here.

Where the chart lines up

No patent on radium

The Curies did not patent their method for extracting radium. Radium later became an increasingly profitable industry, yet they themselves gained little from it. In her chart, Di Kong and Di Jie share the Life Palace. Traditionally, Di Kong and Di Jie in the Life Palace are read as taking money lightly and not counting gains into one's own pocket. It fits her not turning this discovery into a source of income for herself.

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Sharing the 1903 prize with her husband

In 1903 (nominal age 37), she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel. That year her annual Life Palace reached her natal Spouse Palace, which holds Zi Wei (Wang) and Tan Lang (Li). With the annual Life Palace in the Spouse Palace, the year's focus falls on what husband and wife do together. It matches the prize she and Pierre won jointly.

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A second prize, in chemistry, in 1911

In 1911 (nominal age 45), she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of radium and polonium, becoming the first person to win the prize twice. That year her Minor Luck (Xiao Xian) came back to the Life Palace, her own palace of Tian Xiang (De). With the Minor Luck back in the Life Palace, the year's events fall on her in person. That lines up with her receiving this prize on her own.

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Her daughter also won a Nobel Prize

Her elder daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. In Marie Curie's chart, two of the birth-year Four Transformations fall in the Children Palace: Tian Ji (De) with Hua Ke (Transformation of Fame) and Tai Yin (Wang) with Hua Lu (Transformation of Wealth). Hua Ke is reputation and Hua Lu is blessings and returns; with both in the Children Palace, the line of her children carries a glow. Mother and daughter both winning Nobel Prizes is in keeping with this.

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Life Palace

Marie Curie's Life Palace holds Tian Xiang. Xingge's name for this persona: The Chancellor. With the Fire 6 Bureau, that makes the Fire 6 · Tian Xiang type among Xingge's 75.

Tian Xiang · The Chancellor ›Fire 6 · Tian Xiang type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Marie Curie's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1867-11-07 12:00, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 12:16, the Wu hour.

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