The writer’s signature is there in his natal chart, with both his MC in Gemini and Ascendant in Virgo both ruled by Mercury. It is always fascinating to see how the chart is expressive of a life, and Mishima is no different. Like the story of Rashomon by Kurosawa there are as many diverging interpretations as there are people with agendas. Whether you agree this was the reason is left for you to ponder. Then his close friend, Morita, said to be his lover, also committed ritual suicide, so it could have been a love pact. The message of revealing one’s internal organs is coded as sincerity, as having nothing left to hide, truly establishing the person’s honour. He had Chiron conjunct Mars- what greater act of assertion (Mars) can there be in a ritual suicide (Chiron) that was dedicated as a sacrifice to the essence of his nation and ends in a decapitation (Aries)? This conjunction resides in the 8th house of death. He may have been a celebrated author during his life, but his death left him marked as a troublesome nationalist. This shocked the world and traumatized the Japanese people who still today find it difficult and sensitive to discuss feelings about Mishima. One of his followers then sliced off his head with a sword, as commanded by the arcane death ceremony. He enacted an elaborately staged exit to life by committing seppuku – ritual disembowelment. On November 25th in 1970, he asserted indomitable will power. He took Wilde’s quip to heart by putting only his talent into his work, but his real genius into his life, but in Mishima’s case, there’s no getting around it, he made a sacramental public theatre of the abrupt termination of that life, scripted down to the last full stop. Mishima was deadly serious and meticulous about everything he did. It provides sparks to the sex life but allows for the purest kind of dedication more sacred than profane. This Uranus is exactly conjunct asteroid Vesta giving him a transcendant electric charge to guard the flame of his ultimate desires. There are few writers who can startle as dramatically as Mishima – Kimitake Hiroaka– who was born on January 14 th in 1925, and with Uranus on his Descendant, the surprises he provided were many and shocking. Thus Mishima’s literary career was firmly established. Confession brings healing and redemption by the mere act of confessing and death brings relief from the slings and arrows of life. Mishima’s Chiron is conjunct Mars which is the strongest planet in his natal chart as Mars is in Aries, squaring the Sun in Capricorn where it is exalted. I link to this to Chiron, the scapegoat, and sin-eater who swallows the collective pain so others can get on with their lives guilt-free. The mask here is synonymous with ‘passing’ as someone else to fit in to society and not a literal mask as we see everyone forced to wear today. The muse Erato is conjunct the Great Attractor. It made him famous at the young age of 24, and gained a reputation in western circles for its daring sexual fantasies. “Confessions of a Mask’ (1958) is like this – an autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. There is a pleasurable intensity in books that confess to sins or crimes that alienated the author yet seduce the readers.
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