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 18, 2026, Lunar Day 8
SEPT 18, 2026 Waxing Gibbous MOON DAY
Sacred Mother
Heart Gateway
Love- Compassion- Communion
Yin Waxing
Breath: INHALE- Mouth EXHALE: Nose
Sound: “Eyeeeee”
Daily Reflection
Lunar Medicine Daily Reflection
The Sacred Mother continues expanding within us as we deepen our relationship with Love as a living dimension of our Soul. Today, we allow that Love to move beyond feeling into the way we participate in Life — through compassion, generosity, presence, and the care we bring to what matters. Love becomes embodied through what we choose to nourish and what we allow our hearts to remain open to. As we tend this inner source, our capacity for communion grows, widening the field of Love we are able to hold, express, and bring into the world.
Astrological Influences
SAGITTARIUS — Keeper of the Sacred Flame
Feminine Lens: Meaning · Vision · Faith · Expansion · Truth-seeking · Possibility · Spiritual wisdom
Patriarchal Distortions: Dogma · Self-righteousness · Escapism · Spiritual superiority · Avoidance of emotional depth
Sagittarius continues to bring fire and expansion into our embodiment of the Sacred Mother. Love becomes something we are willing to live for — a passionate force that can shape our values, choices, and relationship with Life. Sagittarius expands the heart beyond what is familiar, allowing compassion to embrace a larger vision of what matters. Here, Love becomes a living philosophy: not simply something we feel, but a truth of how we are– we choose to embody.
Elemental Influences
Elemental Influences: Fire- Action
The focus today is on your actions. Pay attention to your impulse to take action. This is an opportunity to deepen your relationship with agency and your ability to act, whether on the mental, emotional, physical or spiritual level.
Daily Audio Activation
Access your Lunar Daily Cultivation Here:
Gateway
Heart Gateway: Communion- Compassion- Love
As the waxing Yin current continues its rise, the lunar energy now activates the Heart Gateway, where the sovereignty cultivated in the Solar softens into the living field of love, compassion, and communion. Here you are invited to tune into the infinite stream of love that lives within you—the love underlying all of creation, the current that unifies and sustains all beings. In this gateway the heart opens the field of relationship, allowing you to perceive the love that moves through all life and revealing that love is already what you are at your deepest level.
Shadow Of the Gateway
Shadow of the Heart Gateway
From Self-Inadequacy to Love
This is the ache of never being enough. It arises from generations of conditioning that told us our worth is measured by how much we serve, how well we perform, or how flawlessly we succeed. It is the wound of love made conditional—of hearts that learned to perform, to please, or to disappear in order to be accepted. We were taught to earn love by becoming what others needed, forgetting the deeper truth: love is not a prize to be won, but the original pulse of who we are.
The Medicine: When brought into the light, self-inadequacy becomes soul sufficiency—a sacred remembrance that we are inherently whole, valuable, and enough just as we are. We are not broken. We are not too much or not enough. We are love—born of love, made for love, and capable of returning to love at any moment. This is the healing of self-love: not as indulgence, but as truth. A compassion so deep it dissolves the illusion of unworthiness and restores the heart’s original knowing—we belong, not because of what we do, but because of who we are.
Affirmation: I AM LOVE.
Lunar Embodied Inquiry
Lunar Embodied Inquiry
• What feelings or inner knowing are asking for my attention as part of my truth today?
• What new truth about myself may be emerging as I integrate the wisdom, creativity, power, and love awakened in this cycle?
• How can I allow my voice to begin honoring what feels real and authentic within me?
Written Embodied Meditation
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.