Why Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's Relationship Works, According to Their Astrological Charts

Selena Gomez certainly appears to be in her happy soft girl era, and we can't help but wonder if her healthy romance with Benny Blanco is playing a part in it. You can look at a woman and just know if she's in a relationship that's draining her or not. In this case, every time the two are photographed together, they can't keep their hands to themselves with all the cute PDA. Don't get us wrong — a woman can definitely thrive and be fulfilled without a romantic partner by her side. But sometimes a great partner brings out a glow within another person, and it's looking like Selena and Benny have a very grown-adult and demure romance that I predict might be headed toward engagement soon.

You might not pin the two as a matchmaking recipe for success because they seem so different personality-wise. Yet, they are both artists and express themselves through creative outlets thanks to their Venus placements, which is a huge astrological connection that brought them together through their love for music. Here's the astrological explanation for why Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco seem to currently work as a couple.

If you look at your chart with anyone in the world, you're guaranteed to find something that is complementary or compatible. As an astrologer, I want to see several indications in two natal charts that can determine longevity and healthy sustenance in a romantic connection. You will have similarities and strengths with karmic lovers, short-term love affairs, and your soulmate alike. Everyone we romantically connect with activates some sort of cosmic compatibility in our charts, whether it's for a long time, a good time, or a lifetime — but what makes two lovers cosmically compatible depends on several factors like aspects, conjunctions, and more.

In the case of these two superstars, they have two significant connections that tell us why they were curious enough to pursue one another. If Benny's birth time was available, maybe we could find more to pinpoint. For now, it's looking like Selena and Benny have an easygoing connection thanks to their mutual water sun signs. Selena is a Cancer sun sign and Benny is a Pisces sun sign. Water signs generally work well with each other if they're not emotionally immature and if they know how to hold space for one another. The couple's water sun signs create a bond built off emotional intimacy, which is not that easy to find in modern dating, some might say. These two prefer laid-back weekends in the house, just cuddling on the couch because that's what every water sign loves to do, right? Totally! They both yearn for low-key moments of compassion and private one-on-one time as water signs.

Interestingly, The Weeknd shares a similar natal placement to Benny Blanco. They both have their natal Scorpio moon conjunct their natal Pluto. Let's just say Selena has an astrological type. Although the two male artists might not seem to give off the same swagger, their moon-conjunct Pluto placements give mysteriously sexy vibes to Selena, whose eighth house naturally gravitates to such Scorpio people.

But why didn't it work with The Weeknd if that's the case? The answer lies in their mutual Aquarius placements. The Weeknd holds an Aquarius sun, Mercury, and north node, which is known as a stellium in astrology. Selena has a stoic Saturn in Aquarius that clashes with The Weeknd's Aquarius Mercury in particular. This likely created tons of miscommunication in their relationship. Saturn can create harsh verbal exchanges with Mercury. The two probably didn't see eye-to-eye on how to communicate with one another, and there were probably a lot of blunt forms of expression that could have come off as criticism from both parties. If the communication isn't right, a connection just won't work, and that was the case here.

Justin Bieber is a Pisces like Benny. Selena definitely gravitates to those who wear their heart on their sleeve like Piscean men tend to do. Justin has a Libra moon sign, and Selena has an Aries moon sign. Their moon signs are sister signs, which creates an instant magnetic attraction. But they're opposite signs, which creates a lot of friction, codependency, and potential trauma bonding because the moon signs want to lean on one another for what they believe they lack. At the same time, they can also pick each other apart. In a high vibrational approach, if they were more mature when they met, their moon signs could have created an unbreakable and healthy bond.

Justin's Venus in Pisces natal placement lands in Selena's eighth house of past lives, and this definitely indicates they are soulmates in this lifetime who met to transcend past lifetime karma — but only if they were able to get past any challenges Venus faces in an eighth house synastry, which is tons of power struggles in love. Venus struggles to feel safe in the eighth house.

However, this placement alone leads to strong attraction and even obsession with one another. In very unhealthy cases, it could demonstrate a toxic trauma bond or domestic violence, and this is not to speculate whether that was the case of their connection or not. Venus in the eighth house creates a memorable experience and imprints the person not only onto your psyche but also your soul. This is a classic "the one that got away" type of love due to this placement.

A few placements in the natal chart, such as your moon sign and Venus sign, can give insight into how we want to express and receive love. Let's take a look at these planets in Selena and Benny's chart to determine their love languages and how they might be complementary, contradictory, or similar.

Her moon in Aries craves a fiery whirlwind romance with equal amounts of sexual pleasure within a connection. The moon sign tells us how we want to receive love and how we personally express it. It doesn't necessarily mean your romantic partner will know how to do this; therefore, healthy communication is key when you want the needs of your moon sign to be met.

Since Aries is a cardinal sign, this makes Selena instinctively prone to making the first move in romantic advances and gestures. Aries like to take initiative, lead, and pursue. She could be the first to let a person know she's into them or the first to plan dates. Equally, she wants a partner who embodies the masculine traits of her masculine moon sign. Yes, Aries is a masculine zodiac sign. Therefore, she expects a lover to embody the characteristics of masculine energies, such as being proactive in love, and creating safety and protection in order for her to feel safe. The moon sign indicates our safety within emotional and intimate bonds.

His Scorpio moon placement craves privacy and sexual chemistry. Actually, Scorpio moons and Aries moons hold strong compatibility within sexual attraction, and they're able to create erotic chemistry together. This is a strong sexual bond between them that likely results in tons of physical touch and PDA as their love language. He likes to express his love language through acts of pleasure, not just sexual acts. Scorpio energy rules hidden desires, and this makes him expressive through monetary gestures like lavish gift-giving when it comes to showing his love and affection to the woman of his interest. This means that he, too, deeply yearns for a partner who showers him with unexpected gifts, and he likes to be surprised or be the one doing the surprising, like planning a secret getaway for his lover. Benny and Selena's moon signs are very similar to the chemistry within Travis Barker's and Kourtney Kardashian's charts, which creates instinctive and intense physical bonding that comes naturally to the duo.

Worth noting: Benny's natal moon conjunct Pluto indicates a very crude and unconventional sense of humor that most might not find digestible or appealing. This is something we might assume Selena finds oddly endearing due to her Aquarius seventh house, which prefers uncanny, unconventional romantic partners and eccentric personalities.

The two have Venus placements that fall into the fixed-signs category. Benny has a Taurus Venus and Selena has a Leo Venus. In astrology, there are modalities in which the zodiac signs are grouped into a family. The fixed signs are the modality that houses Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. The fixed signs generally get along really well as long as they respect that each is set in their ways. A person with a fixed-sign Venus will have a particular approach to love matters and doesn't really like change, inconsistency, or lack of loyalty, and they are very creative lovers. Hence, this is likely why these two artistic people gravitate to one another.

However, there is something that can create tension between their two Venus placements. Taurus and Leo are square to one another in astrology. When two signs are square, they are in conflict, and both feel the need to be justified or opinionated because they form a 90-degree angle from one another within the astrological wheel. This equates to tension between the two signs. They will both benefit from approaching this romance with a bit of flexibility and veering away from the stubbornness that fixed signs tend to embody.

Yes! They are soulmates for two particular reasons that stand out within their charts. Whenever you share an eighth house placement with someone in your synastry charts, this is automatically indicated as a past-life soulmate. In this case, Benny's Pisces sun sign and Pisces north node land in Selena's eighth house. This is also a house of karma and childbearing. Having an eighth house connection with someone is intense and potent, and it indicates that you will have significant karma to fulfill in this lifetime, such as marriage or shadow work healing.

Also, whenever you share a planet in the seventh house — meaning if you have a planet that falls in someone's seventh house or vice versa — this can lead to potential marriage and is a strong indicator of a soulmate. Selena's natal Saturn resides in her seventh house, alluding to one marriage that will be guaranteed in this lifetime. Benny has potential to be her future husband because his natal Mercury in Aquarius lands in her seventh house of marriage and life partners. But that alone isn't that strong of a placement to say with confidence that he's her future husband.

Their shared eighth house synastry will require them to build deep bonds of emotional, spiritual, and physical intimacy. Yet, this can also derail their relationship because eighth house placements make the lovers feel a need to assert power if they're not self-aware.

Benny being a Pisces sun sign makes him appealing to Selena because he embodies the dreamy, empathetic, and emotionally expressive characteristics that Piscean people tend to have. This is likely why she seems so light, relaxed, and soft within her aura lately. Also, Benny's Jupiter and Venus in Taurus placements make him a dependable and steady lover. Those planets in Taurus create consistency because that's what Taurus does — it's a planner and a doer. His Jupiter in Taurus depicts what type of husband he would be, one that is focused on creating stability and material success for his loved one. All of his Taurus placements fall in Selena's tenth house of men and masculinity, further indicating why she intuitively feels he's "the one" for her.

Maybe you've seen the speculation online of a Selena and Benny pregnancy or even a secret engagement. We're here to address the rumors based on their astrological charts. There is definitely a possibility of a long relationship here and a potential engagement in 2025, thanks to Selena's Aries moon being ignited by the Aries eclipse on March 29, 2025. But will it go all the way to marriage with a horse and carriage? Anything can happen. Based on their synastry, I'm not all the way sold on a marriage, but rather a relationship that could lead to a long engagement without heading to the altar. This relationship has the potential to become complacent because even though it feels easy and safe, it also appears as though there isn't enough chemistry to last for the long haul. This prediction is based on the minimal connections that create harmony in their charts.

Esoteric Esa is a writer, astrologer, and expert in the esoteric fields. She's contributed to HipLatina, Mitú, and Cosmopolitan. Her work focuses on eliminating misconceptions around taboo subjects in Latine spirituality such as astrology, brujería, and decoloniality.