Ceremony Weekend Poetry — August 2026
These sacred texts were created as poetry during a Souls of Source Ceremony weekend in August 2026.
These sacred texts are woven from the voices of the congregation during the ceremony. In communion with the Divine Source, each voice becomes a thread in a greater tapestry, revealing the wisdom that moves through all of us.
Weaver: Kiley Hartigan
Ceremony Phase 1
Welcome
back from the future
We are here now
having borrowed
The history of tomorrow.
It’s just us
And the lineage of longing
Lying in the temple of our bones.
Can you feel it?
Welcome home
Here you’ve been invited
To bring all of your imagination to this table
Of brilliant minds and members of nature weaving
This intricate tapestry of mastery
That is the Omya legacy
an unstoppable force
Can you feel it?
Shifting what’s been redactive and extractive
For us to become a regenerative generation Come
Sit in the feather bed of our garden
Friend, you belong here.
Ceremony Phase 2
How beautiful is this?
We’re writing the future of Omya today
With a perfect opportunity to seize
our world is aching
For us
To get focused and make choices
That shift our awareness from
constant treat assessment towards
How can I bless this?
Out of our hearts relaxation comes our most grounded actions
that prioritize the wellbeing of children
our true VIP members.
Together,
with business as our art
We’re creating a tactical infiltration ecosystem
Capable of reciprocal nourishment
Whose members’ families have a genuinely distinguished seat at that table
Where we are daring
each other to bring our persidity and tenacity
Our delusional optimism
Could it be that simple?
May this seed be planted
In this garden of our hearts
Feel it
feed it.
Ceremony Phase 3
What does fully activated look like?
What does fully activated feel like?
Does it feel something like this?
Can you feel what’s being born?
What are we a result of? Our environment?
Or rather, our expectations, informed by our imaginations
Informed by meeting those people you’ve been craving to find
Who helped you unlock new levels of your heart?
New levels of friendship
Resolving the riddle of trust.
Keeping our feet steady when our packs are heavy
It was a lot easier than we thought
after we got
out of our own way.
It just required something we perhaps weren’t used to
Like vulnerability
Feel what becomes possible when we connect to the bigger truth of our story together
And move out of a life of being mostly alone to life with this community
Where you don’t need to perform to belong
Where you can soften
While bringing your gifts
Into the reciprocity of yours and others’ healing, uplifting
For our impact to take on larger meaning
Look ahead, we’re preparing
Right now building
What our future generations are already needing.
Can you feel it?
Integration
I’m shocked at how much has come up
We’re doing it!
My journey started way before I got
here.
Where we’re
truly getting to know each other
That’s when I feel Omya blossoming
when i feel myself opening
Intimate doors like how I love
own flesh and blood.
How do we really weave
our families into Omya’s legacy?
What could be possible
if we all belonged here?
In a web of real connection
Having real conversation.
Just consider how much we learn
By witnessing each other live in our relationships.
It teaches me
the kind of invitation I have earned
to now offer from my heart
Sharpening our axe, ready
In a whole new way
When we really understand
The art we’ve made from protecting our heart
And realize we’re worth knowing
And that whatever we’re going through
We can work it out together.
Like profound loneliness
Or the shame that re-emerges from our past
When the mirrors of our closest relationships reveal to us
startling perspectives of ourselves - our greatest teachers
Like our grandchildren
We get to build a legacy here
Where they feel at home in
Accepted and seen in
Not embarrassed to be themselves in
Because we’ve done the inside job
Of not running away from ourselves
Of loving ourselves
And getting out of our own way
It’s so simple
Yet so complicated
All at once
Just to ask for help
Or even saying no
As a powerful way of saying yes
Or being the non judgemental observer
Lovingly catch those moments
When our painful buttons are pressed
So may we give ourselves courageously over
To this life so blessed
With extraordinary humans
Who’ve exited the prison of conventional wisdom
A team who’s picking up steam
Free to build
a whole new world.
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