The Sea of Fertility.

Yukio Mishima's final novels are called The Sea of Fertility.

But Mishima himself said that the title was meant to be ironic, comparing it to the arid seas on the moon*.

This reflects the Buddhist doctrine that all life is unsatisfactory.

And indeed all life is unsatisfactory until we find love.

Love is the water in the jar of Aquarius.

The Egyptian hieroglyph ab - a jar - means the heart.

And the water that flows form the jar is love.

So all life is indeed unsatisfactory and arid like the seas of the moon until we find the water that makes life fertile, and that is the love within our own hearts.

(*The Sea of Fertility is one of the seas on the moon.)

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