Autumn's Brightness & Winter's Gold

The Art, Alchemy, and History of Tangerine Peel

Nov 29 • 

Lucia Deyi

11

6

1

Why the Moon Princess Came to Earth

The Moon Princess Archetype & her philosophical strategy in The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Nov 16 • 

Lucia Deyi

12

6

3

The Empress & The Moon Rabbit, Part I: Weaving the Silk Map

Textile Diplomacy in Han Dynasty China and the Byzantine Empire

Nov 6 • 

Lucia Deyi

 and 

The Empress of Byzantium

29

8

18

Brigid, Cailleach & The Grateful Dead

How winter’s bite turns bitter fruit to medicine

Nov 1 • 

Lucia Deyi

14

3

3

October 2025

A Silk Road Mini-Library: Fall/Winter 2025

The sensuality of study & gathering books for my personal curriculum

Oct 23 • 

Lucia Deyi

17

18

4

Six Moons Later: A Map To Lunar Garden

Substack Autumn Update + Reader's Guide (Start Here!)

Oct 17 • 

Lucia Deyi

12

5

5

Letters To A Plum Moon

Poetry & reflection prompts for mid-autumn rites of completion

Oct 6 • 

Lucia Deyi

26

12

12

September 2025

Colours of the Human Heart

An intro and detailed step-by-step guide to writing Japanese tanka poetry

Sep 27 • 

Lucia Deyi

11

6

6

The First Spark

From Greece to China: Do Fire Myths Teach Survival or Supremacy?

Sep 21 • 

Lucia Deyi

15

3

5

Dancing through a Forgotten Kingdom

And who exactly brought Buddhism to China?

Sep 10 • 

Lucia Deyi

21

10

8

Heart Like Hawthorn

Of an ancient tree that smells like death and protects the heart

Sep 3 • 

Lucia Deyi

12

5

2

August 2025

When Tolkien Drew A Hexagram

How Tolkien’s art connects to ancient Chinese cosmology

Aug 23 • 

Lucia Deyi

14

9

5