I was reading Dark of the Soul by Liz Greene and came across a segment about fears and phobias’. My mother reacts like a nut-case whenever a wasp fly’s anywhere near her. It happened a lot at the fairground and if a wasp was nearby she would run away waving her arms in the air frantically.I wouldn’t say she has a real phobia about wasps, but definitely has a funny reaction to those stingers. Astrologer Liz Greene mentioned my mother's natal Moon square Mars in reference to stingers in our lives. My mother grew up with a Scorpio parent and she was both verbally and physically violent to her as a child. It was the psychological element of her fear transferred to something else which I found totally compelling, and here is the waspy quote:
Phobias about wasps are often connected to a very early fear of being attacked out of nowhere with a poisonous verbal sting. It happens very quickly, and the child has done nothing to deserve it, but it hurts, and the memory of the fear and hurt remains even if the specific incident is forgotten. Very often it is the mother who behaves like this – although it can also be a sibling – or there is unconscious aggression building up in the family psyche, and the child fears it will be turned on him or her unpredictably at any time. When we start exploring fantasies about these insects, we can begin to understand what they might symbolise. Most species of wasp are benign, but some are quite vicious and will attack with little provocation. We even use the word in colloquial speech, and describe a person as being waspish. This tells us what kind of feeling is involved in the phobia. Astrologically, there is no specific configuration which states, “Wasp phobia!”, but I would not be surprised to find a hard Moon- Mars or Moon-Pluto aspect, or Mars or Pluto in the 10th house. By Liz Greene – The Dark of the Soul
Poisonous atmospheres in our friendships, relationships and family are usually linked with planets in Scorpio, planets in the eighth house and/or Pluto aspects. Astrologically Scorpio is represented by the Scorpion - a creature which is widely feared because of its sting in its tail. Scorpio doesn’t always react straight away, unless, as Greene says, it’s a particularly vicious stinger and they attack out of nowhere.
Scorpio’s can bide their time for the right moment to deliver their deadly sting. Furthermore Scorpio’s deep psychological insights into human nature always knows exactly where to sting so that it delivers the greatest, debilitating impact. The Scorpio may use deadly force of violence, sarcasm, or revenge.
Astrologer Richard Ideman states that the water houses can be indicative of various types of fear: fear of returning to the helpless state of childhood (4th), of social taboos (8th), and of chaos (12th). Most fears are correlated to something which happened in the past, some kind of shock or traumatic experience.
