The Importance of Your Muchness
"Muchness is the way that we fill the puzzle-piece of space that is ours in the Universe most fully."
“You used to be much more…”muchier.” You’ve lost your muchness.”
~ The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland.
I’ve had an idea in my head for months now. It’s a weird and bonkers thing that I am being prodded - by some part of me - to create and to share with you.
But I haven’t begun creating it yet. (Lies. Today I finally began to create the page it will live on.)
These months of noodling and procrastifaffing aren’t really me. I don’t do that. When I get an idea for a course or an offer, I go all in. I am art department, writer, editor, and tech team, so I have to go all in to get it done.
Sometimes I offer it before I have created it because the energy of the thing is that pure and that excited to be a part of the world.
But this? I’ve been holding back.
Why?
Because more than any other offer, this one will require me to be in my own muchness. A lot. Repeatedly.
And that scares me. A lot.
Sadly, the quote about Muchness does not come from Lewis Carroll himself, but I love it just the same.
Muchness feels like the right way to describe the parts of ourselves that are all of us. Muchness describes our weirdness, our too-muchness, our invisible crown-ness, our invisibility cloak-ness. Muchness is the way that we fill the puzzle-piece of space that is ours in the Universe most fully.
Muchness is the bit of us that wakes us up in the morning, or joins us in the shower and says, “you know what we could do?” and scares the blazes out of us because of all that that thing would require.
But there is the thing: muchness holds the key to our USness.
Muchness asks us to turn around and face the dragon. It asks us to admit to our strange longings and odd ways. It asks us to show up and create at 5am (that’s been happening to me) before the sun is even up so that we can’t get into our heads before we’ve done something that’s OURS.
It asks us to wear red, or write that down, or follow that path. It feels scary in a way that is different from all other fears: it’s scary because you know it’s you calling you.
Today I began to create what I know will take me into the heart of my own muchness. It’s the magic I have been dancing around for the past few months. It’s so scary and so exciting all at once. I thought I shouldn’t about as many times as I thought I should today - and that’s better odds than before.
What about you? How is your muchness calling you?
If you have wondered, even once, what it is that you are supposed to do now, or next? Or what is this human gig even about? Your muchness is the key. That invitation to be weird/creative/unusual/bold/silly/out-there? That’s the forgotten language you are seeking to remember.
And when you begin to learn it again, you will make magic that is all your own.
I will if you will. x
With much love,
P.S. If you want help with this - with hearing or seeing or knowing your muchness, I offer one-off, 1:1 calls. You’ll be amazed how much muchier things can get with a little support.
My muchness is poking at me and calling me as a siren, and I´m like Odysseys trying to not listen. Whenever I let my muchness lead, I end up doing wonderful things. And yet I have been told several times I´m too much either directly or subtly. It stings, and you try to make yourself smaller. But the muchness is there, asking me to listen. Well I loved this post and know there are big things I could if I dared, go forward with.