Travel by Invitation Only? Human Design in Practice

I have a real problem with Human Design Practitioners teaching and regurgitating Human Design Theory without explaining the nuances of how it works in real life and without adding their own spin to the practical elements. I’m a purist when it comes to the theory but I’m a radicalist and practicalist when it comes to the lived differentiated experience of the Human Design experiment.

I’m a 1/3 Mental Projector who is designed to wait for the invitation and decide through soundboarding and the environment. But, as someone in my class asked, “How do I choose my f*ing sandwich?!”. Which translates as, ‘that’s all well and good, but how do I choose the small things which add up to be life changing?’ This is an area which is completely missed from every syllabus.

I often do experiments within the experiment. What I mean by that is I overall know what the experiment is and follow it generally in all areas of my life but I occasionally turn focus to a specific area of my life to really overhaul the way I think about it.

One experiment I conducted last year was with regards to travel. Travel is a huge part of who I am. I spent all of my 20s travelling in some shape or form. I lived in 5 countries and travelled to many more. It was before my Human Design experiment however invitations were present albeit I initiated first as I sought it out. Which leads to a larger question of ‘is it ok to seek out paths that we want to do in life and then see if an invitation is present or are we at the mercy of others inviting us into looking?’ which I’ll explore another time.

Travel was and is part of my identity. I know with my completely open G – this isn’t meant to be. I’m not here to be attached to identity – in theory. Yet, there are some things that stick and other things that do not. Travel is one consistent in my life.

So here was my hypothesis – I know travel is part of my identity and, if I am right, theoretically I should receive invitations to travel even if I stop trying and stop seeking.

Here’s what happened.

Travelling by invitation only

I had just ended a year-long relationship and moved back to London after living in Norway with them. For the first time in my adult life, I put away my passports (plural because I’m a dual citizen) and wondered if I would ever travel again or if I’d have to break the experiment to run away and travel regardless – travel feels like fresh air to me.

The first invitation I got was to travel to Miami on a 5-day business retreat/vacation. How did this come in? I had been working with a manifestor business mentor for a little while (who came through invitation). She reached out to me personally asking if I’d like to attend her retreat. This was a specific invitation not an open one based on the conversation that happened following her initial reaching out. I soundboarded and it was a clear yes. I then received further specific invitations for reduced airfare which meant I could travel business class to Miami return for a couple of hundred pounds. And then another invitation to split the cost of accommodation and travel together for a couple days post retreat which I accepted.

The second invitation I received was to Portugal. A manifestor friend reached out to me asking if I’d join her in Portugal. Again, this was a specific invitation for myself and all flights and accommodation were paid for. The circumstances were she had ended a dating arrangement with a guy she had been seeing for a couple of months and she now faced the prospect of travelling alone on a trip they had already paid for. She reached out to ask me as her first port of call. I accepted and we spent a long weekend in Portugal.

The third invitation I received was to travel to Gibraltar and Spain. A generator friend of mine reached out and invited me to stay with her. I again received an invitation for cheaper airfare and my friend would pick me up from the airports and take me around with her for the few days I was with her. I accepted after soundboarding out the options. This trip has a wider story around the practical elements of Human Design and using soundboarding and invitations in a fast-paced circumstance that couldn’t be decided on in weeks.

Soundboarding done FAST; stuck in Spain

I went to visit my friend and we had a fabulous few days together. On the final day, she drove me to the airport and I went to get on my flight. Little did I know, that the night before, all of the flights from this airport and other airports were grounded due to a huge storm. The one drawback of travelling on my reduced airfare is that I am on a standby ticket meaning I only get on the plane if there is space. As you can imagine, there was no space on this flight because everyone from the previous day was transferred onto this flight.

Here were the circumstances – all flights across nearby Europe were now fully booked. There were no flights from Spain, France, Gibraltar – or anywhere else we could think of. I was now stuck at the airport with no one I knew and no invitations. My friend was now a couple of hours drive from me. 

So what happened? 

This was the real experiment. I had followed the invitations there and then the unexpected happened. So – was I meant to just stay stationary until an invitation came? Was I going to have to sleep at the airport? Was I going to have to break the experiment in order to be safe and get home?

Here’s where I went even more radically into my experiment.

I waited. I observed. I watched other people and listened to their conversations. I could see everything that was going on. I was fully in the loop with all of the options at every moment. I researched when I needed to – through listening as well as the interned (I’m a 1/3. My 1st line is going to investigate. That is my process.)

I didn’t start a single conversation. I didn’t start manipulating being noticed by smiling at someone etc. I waited.

It took a matter of seconds to minutes before someone noticed me – to my utter surprise. This person was in the same boat as me. They needed to get home and they also were aware there were no flights today or for the rest of the week from this airport or surrounding country airports.

They invited me to walk with them and talk through the options to see if we could figure out a solution. We both explored all the options and explored all the resources we had to our hands.

They invited me to stay with them at their family house a couple of miles away. I also had an invitation to stay at our family home in Vienna, Austria. My friend also offered to help in any way that she could. I had an invitation to get some other type of transportation with the people with me eg a hire car or a train.

I knew I needed to soundboard – and fast. There was no time to be waiting a week or a month to find the answer.

I called every person I could and soundboarded inbetween with the people directly in aura with me. I made everyone on the phone aware – this wasn’t time for questions or judgments or questions, this was a time for me to hear myself and for them to point out any flaws or objections in my plans – to help expand my reality and thought process QUICKLY. 

The soundboarding revealed Vienna to be the best option for me. I went to the check in desk, I booked a flight to Vienna (with my own money at full, last-minute inflated price – was this aligned? I don’t know but I had my own resources to afford the price tag and I had invitations waiting on the other side and the flight was weirdly leaving in a couple of hours time rather than days etc).

When I got to the flight, I felt relieved when the invitations were rolling in. The girl next to me asked if I wanted to swap seats – I most definitely did! (I know this isn’t an ‘invitation’ per say but if felt affirming to me and felt like I was recognised for something I had an inner desire for that I didn’t ask for). I also had family rallying from the soundboarding who were paving the way for my arrival in Vienna.

At every point on this journey I was looked after and guided.

When I got to Vienna, I needed to get into the city from the airport but it was too late for public transport. I tried to order a taxi but none were arriving. The airport taxis were offering incredibly inflated prices because of the time and telling me if I wasn’t to say yes now, they’d double the prices. I was stuck at the airport. I was under pressure. What happened? A couple near me asked me if I was ok and if I needed help. They explained they understood the taxi situation at the airport and the normal difficulties I was facing. They offered to stay with me and to take me in their taxi with their local app. They took me into town and told me not to worry about the cost of the taxi.

In addition to this, from the moment I landed in Vienna, I was in communication with my family in Vienna. They were making sure I arrived and had the key ready and waiting. They had put some basic food into the apartment for my arrival.

The plan which was soundboarded on was I would stay there for the night and then book flights home the next day.

I went to sleep and woke up in the morning to news that the air traffic control in London had gone down and all flights were delayed. The knock on effect of this was all flights to the UK – the whole of the UK were now fully booked for the whole week. JUST MY UNEXPECTED LUCK.

I had work to do and client calls to make – what was I going to do? I got offered a laptop to borrow for the week and access to the wifi code for another apartment which reached mine.  

And then – I realised – I had a week to play in Vienna now everything was sorted. Yes it was unexpected and ‘not ideal’ or ‘not to plan’ but it was the experiment and seemed so divinely timed.  

But between the invitations – is time to play. And time to observe.

I stayed in Vienna for a week. I had some incredible breakthroughs. And then I returned home to London through the standby reduced cost flight.  

Following this, I received a vacation invitation to Palma and Austria with my dad – all expenses paid for the week. I had a vacation invitation from my Mum to go to Sri Lanka (I paid for this trip fully myself). She did later pull out of the trip so I went alone with the tour group. I got an invitation to go on an all expenses paid skiing trip with my dad for New Years in Austria. I got personally invited with a discount code to the Human Design Conference in Bulgaria by an IHDS tutor I had a private call with.

And the invitations to travel have not stopped yet.