Welcome to your Daily Feminine Presence practice aligned with the living matrix of the Mother through the daily rhythm of the Moon.

Each day offers a small field of reflection to help you understand the lunar influences shaping the moment and how to move with them in awareness.

Within this page you will find the daily influences, contemplative prompts, and embodied inquiries that support deeper listening to the wisdom of the day. You may choose to reflect quietly, journal, or simply carry these questions with you.

At the end of the page you will also find the Daily Feminine Presence meditation, along with an audio practice recorded for the day, that I make specifically for you. 

Allow the practice to unfold naturally and take only what resonates.
Thank you for walking this path of Feminine remembrance.

Daily Feminine Medicine

July 13, 2026 Dark MOON Day 28

Creatrix 

Sacral Gateway

Becoming- Creativity- Sexuality

Yang Waning

Breath: INHALE- Nose EXHALE: Mouth

Sound: “Oooooo”

 

Lunar Medicine Daily Reflection

As the descending cycle continues through the Sacral Gateway, the process of release deepens through emotional honesty, surrender, and integration. Here, we are invited to soften the stories and desires that no longer nourish our becoming, allowing space for deeper authenticity and creative truth to emerge.

Today invites us to witness where we have abandoned our emotional needs, desires, or creative impulses in order to maintain belonging, approval, or safety. As we release outdated narratives around pleasure, sexuality, and expression, we begin restoring a more compassionate and truthful relationship with the life seeking to move through us.

Access your Lunar Daily Cultivation Here: 

Sacral Gateway: Becoming- Creativity- Sexuality

As the lunar cycle continues its descent into the Dark Moon, the energy remains within the Sacral Gateway, inviting a deeper surrender into the waters of feeling. As you draw closer to the nourishing presence of the Mother, you may begin to sense the places where Her love has felt absent—the quiet ache of separation carried through your outward journey. In this dark and tender phase, emotions may rise like waters thawing after a long winter, allowing grief, longing, and unspoken feelings to move through you. Rather than resisting what arises, you are invited to meet it with compassion, allowing these emotional currents to flow and be gently composted within the womb of the Mother.

CANCER — WATER — Sacred Mother
Feminine Lens: Feminine consciousness · Tending the unseen · Mother lineage · Ancestral memory · Womb consciousness · Inner home · Emotional attunement · Belonging
 Patriarchal distortions: Self-sacrificing martyr · Caretaking without reciprocity · Enmeshment · Fear-based attachment

Cancer brings you into the field of the Sacred Mother—softening the Sacral Gateway through tenderness, emotional nurturance, compassion, and deeper care for the inner world. This influence invites us to release emotional patterns, protective identities, and inherited stories that have disconnected us from our authentic desires, emotional needs, and creative life-force. Cancer reminds us that dissolution is not abandonment, but a return to deeper emotional truth, allowing the next cycle of becoming to emerge from a place of greater softness, wisdom, and inner belonging.

Elemental Influences: Water- Emotional Body

The focus today is on your emotional body. Pay attention to how you feel, and how you respond and/or react with others. This is an opportunity to deepen the relationship with your emotions through embodiment or dissolution. 

Shadow of the Sacral Gateway

From Self-Rejection (Sacral Gateway) to Creativity
This is the voice that says, “I am not lovable as I am.” It’s the shadow of disowning our bodies, emotions, intuition, sensuality—because we were taught, they were too much, too messy, or simply not enough. It disconnects us from our ability to feel, to desire, to create, and to trust our inner waters.

The Medicine: When transmuted, self-rejection becomes radical self-acceptance—the sacred integration of all parts of ourselves as holy, worthy, and necessary for our wholeness. From this place, we reclaim our inherent capacity to create—not just life through the womb, but art, visions, ideas, and entire worlds. The Sacral is the seat of the Creatrix, the source of sacred manifestation and divine imagination. When this wound is healed, we no longer strive to become—we remember that we are already the vessel through which life dreams itself into being.

Affirmation: I AM CREATRIX.

Lunar Embodied Inquiry:

• What emotions or feelings are rising within me that are asking to be felt and honored?

• How can I meet these experiences with compassion rather than resistance or avoidance?

• In what ways can I allow my emotions to move through me as part of a deeper process of return and release?

Daily Lunar Medicine Cultivation
BreathWork
1.      Place your hand on the corresponding physical location of today’s gateway. Feel the energy of your hands activating this gateway, as you slow down your breath and become present of your inner world.
2.     Notice whether today is yin rising (front body) or yang descending (back body). Begin today’s breath rhythm, and focus the breath on the gateway either toward the front or the back of the body, Breathe slowly and mindfully, letting go of all other agendas, worries, judgments or concerns… giving yourself time to just be with your breath.
3.     Continue this breath until you feel merged with the breath cycle, where the breath is breathing you—can be 5 min, 10 or 15 minutes.
Voice Activation
4.     Pause for a few seconds as we shift into voice activation. Continue your hand placement in the corresponding gateway.
5.     Gently begin to sound directly into the corresponding gateway, slowly… allowing the sound to move you. This is not performative, so it does not need to sound any particular way—no judgment, no good or bad. Allow your sound to come from deep within, organically, slow or fast, loud or low, high tone or low tone.  
6.     Continue the vocalization, until you naturally feel complete. Then allow yourself to pause and come into silence. Notice what has shifted; mentally, emotionally, physically somatically. Let yourself just observe—not making any conclusions.  Allow yourself to be present, in silence, for a few minutes, just noticing. 
Integration: Humming, Vision, Breath
7.     Become aware of the body of the moon, at today’s phase.
8.     Envision the body of the moon at the corresponding gateway in your body and allow yourself to breathe into Her.
9.     With each breath, envision the body of the moon grow expanding larger and larger within you.
10.   As you breathe, add in gentle humming with each exhale—allowing yourself to fully merge with Her body.  Breathing slowly, humming gently and envisioning the moon growing with each breath.
11.    As the moon grows, allow it to encompass your physical body completely, and grow past the physical boundaries of your body. Slowing and gently, through breath and humming, the moon ends up holding you—as you see yourself sitting within the body of the moon.
12.   Continue a few breaths here, until you feel completely dissolved and merged with Her. 
13.    Allow the body of the moon to completely surround you, hold you, and nourish you.
14.   After a few minutes allow yourself to come into completion, bowing in gratitude, to the moon, the Universe and Source Mother all around you.
15.   Allow the gratitude to expand through your heart… and out in to the world.
 
Closing Reflections:
Take a few moments to record your experience of the Lunar Breathwork Cultivation above.
Notice what you felt, experienced and noticed as you engaged with this practice.
Were there any epiphanies that arose during this cultivation? Was there anything that stood out, that caught your attention, that feels important or significant? Trust the wisdom in your body… and in your experience.
Also you may consider your relationship to the qualities of the Lunar Day Gateway and what you would like to invite into your life and your experience. `

Dr. Leonor Murciano‑Luna, PhD, is a Medicine Woman, spiritual healer, Integrative doctor & author of ‘Birth of the Conscious Feminine’ and ‘Evolution of our Feminine Soul Journal’ . Dr. Luna is founder of Feminine Medicine Institute. With over 30 years of experience in Daoist, Sufi, and feminine mystical traditions, she guides women in remembering the ancestral healing ways of The Feminine. Dr. Luna offers a deeply embodied and initiatory approach to ritual, voice, womb wisdom, and sacred medicine prioritizing safety, autonomy and authenticity.