Welcome to your Daily Feminine Medicine. 

Each day offers a small field of reflection to help you align with the  rhythm of the cycles around us, and within.  

Within this page you will find the daily Guidance, astrological influences and more on how the cycles affect us our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual bodies. 

I also share contemplative prompts, and embodied inquiries that support deeper listening to the Feminine wisdom within you. 

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

Daily Feminine Medicine

  SEPT 11, 2026 Lunar Day 1 

Dark Mother

Root Gateway

Belonging, Wisdom and Union

Yin Waxing

Breath: INHALE- Nose EXHALE: Nose

Sound: “Urrrgggh”

Lunar Medicine Daily Reflection

Today, on our first day of this lunar cycle, the Dark Mother invites us to anchor ourselves in the ground of what already is: this body, this life, this breath, this moment. Today, we can allow ourselves to truly feel the deeper ground that is ever-present beneath us. Notice the roots that already sustain us — the simple rhythms, relationships, practices, and unglamorous daily faithfulness that keep us nourished and steady — and offer them your devotion through the way you tend them. The Dark Mother asks us to stay within the slow, inner quiet of belonging: through what we tend to, what we give our attention to, and what is constantly tending to us.

VIRGO — EARTH — Devotional Priestess

Feminine Lens: Refinement · Ritual tending · Healing · Medicine Woman · Health · Sacred body · Devotion · Service · Integration · Wholeness
Patriarchal distortions: Productivity over worth · Hyper-self-monitoring · Criticism · Perfectionism · Control through correction

Virgo meets the Dark Mother and asks you here to know that you belong exactly as you are in this moment, without needing to fix yourself, fit in, or strive to meet some other expectation. Here, you can center yourself in the holy dark of the Mother, within yourself, knowing that you are always loved, accepted, and belong, regardless of what you have or have not accomplished, perfected, or become. Here, you commune with the Divine aspect of Self—where there is nothing to fix, because nothing was ever broken.

Elemental Influences: Earth- Physical Body

The focus today is on your physical body. Pay attention to your body, to the Earth and the physical world. This is an opportunity to deepen your relationship with your body, the Earth and the physical world around you.

Access your Lunar Daily Cultivation Here:

Root Gateway: Belonging Wisdom- Union     

The quiet renewal initiated at the New Moon continues to gather strength beneath the surface, as Yin rises slowly through the Root Gateway. What was chosen in the dark now begins to settle into the body, inviting you to root your intentions through presence, breath, and trust in the unfolding path. In this early movement of the cycle, belonging is cultivated not through striving, but through the simple act of inhabiting your life fully, allowing the seed of wisdom planted yesterday to begin finding its place in the living field of your body and your world.

Shadow of the Root Gateway

From Self-Blame (Root Gateway) to Wisdom
This shadow convinces us that everything is our fault—that we are the cause of pain, failure, or suffering in others. Rooted in centuries of scapegoating, persecution, and punishment, self-blame keeps us apologizing for simply existing. It disconnects us from the ground of our being and from the truth of our inherent worth.

The Medicine: When healed, self-blame transforms into sacred responsibility—a reclamation of our power to choose, speak, and act from embodied truth rather than inherited shame. From this place of rooted presence, we no longer carry the burdens of others, but walk in the grounded clarity of our own knowing. This is the beginning of Wisdom—not the wisdom of the intellect, that is knowledge, but the deep, earth-bound knowing that arises from integration, discernment, and self-trust.

Affirmation: I AM WISDOM, I BELONG, I AM IN UNION WITH THE UNIVERSE

Lunar Embodied Inquiry

  • What is my current relationship with soul qualities of Belonging Wisdom & Union with Great Mother Source
  • How are these qualities of  expanding or unfolding within me?
  • Where am I being invited to more fully embody these Soul Qualities of Belonging, Wisdom & Union ? 
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.