During this period, love, pleasure, and beauty are tested for honesty. You may want to look kind, desired, subtle, irreplaceable, but the inner light does not accept substitution. The square shows where sympathy becomes trade, and tenderness hides control, anxiety, jealousy, calculation, resentment, or fear of loss.
Venus in tension to Selena sharpens themes of flirtation, gifts, reconciliation, money, aesthetics, jealousy, and dependence on a pleasant image. A person may use beauty as proof of value or do "good" in order to receive love. Relationships are especially visible where a smile covers resentment and a concession turns into an unspoken bill.

