You can’t tell the story of this book without telling the story of Jasmina first.

She was the one who made me write it.

I have this one client named Jasmina. She was one of my very first clients ever.

When I started reading tarot professionally—which is a whole story on its own and deserves its own post—I was so happy when I got my first clients. Genuinely grateful. Kind of in disbelief. Conversions don’t start gradually. You wait for months. Get one client. Wait months again. Get another. Eventually, three weeks later, another one. Then three at once. Then nothing for two months straight.

And I was so happy about every single client that I didn’t just care deeply about them—I overdelivered. I did free follow-ups. Checked in to see if they were okay. Made sure the readings actually landed in real life. Something you simply can’t do anymore once you get busy enough to manage your time properly.

This was an exciting time. It was a lot of fun.

And this was the exact pattern I was—totally unprofessionally—following when I made friends with Jasmina.

Jasmina is a person who dreams a lot, so we connected through dream readings.

And I’m not gonna lie, dream readings weren’t my best asset back then. Demand was almost non-existent. Most people either try to solve the puzzle themselves by googling random symbols, or they post their dreams on Reddit hoping for free advice from strangers.

Let me be clear first: I’m not against free readings at all. If someone gives them away to practice, because they’re bored and want to entertain themselves, as part of a back-and-forth dialogue where there’s real exchange, during a live to gain visibility, or in exchange for testimonials, I’m 100% supportive. The people who volunteer for live readings or provide testimonials? Respect to them. I don’t want anyone reading this to think I’m shading that.

What upsets me are the entitled DMs. The people who slide into messages demanding a freebie when they know damn well that’s not what you’re offering.

What I’m trying to say is this: The dream crowd is potentially bigger than the tarot crowd. Almost every person has a disturbing dream at some point in their life and goes looking for answers. So you’d think dream readings would have higher demand than tarot readings. But the reality is the opposite. Dreams bring visibility. Tarot brings clients.

Anyways, as a person who dreams a lot myself, I love doing dream readings. This topic genuinely excites me. And since I didn’t have many clients demanding them, I followed up on each one, as long as I had the time to do so.

Fast forward to summer 2025. After a long period with little contact (Jasmina was doing really well and didn’t need spiritual services), she emailed me.

We’d known each other since April 2021, so I was genuinely excited to hear from her. We switched to phone and started chatting. It turned into hours.

At some point, when we were talking about her dreams and how the predictions turned out spot-on, one of us (honestly, I can’t remember who said it first) landed on the idea: there should be a book about this.

A book about real dreams, what they predicted, and what actually happened later.

We were totally excited. You know how that conversation goes: good mood, good person, both of you buzzing about an idea that just feels right.

But when Jasmina pushed me to actually do it, I hesitated hard.

“I don’t think I could,” I said. “I don’t store client emails long-term for privacy reasons. Most people don’t even tell me what happened after their reading. Even if they did, I’d have to track down returning clients, ask if they saved the emails, beg permission to use their stories…”

“Imagine getting that message after booking a service: ‘Hey, I want to write a book about the reading I gave you … do you have the email stored and can I publish it?'”

Unprofessional. Awkward. Cringe. “Oh my god, no. I can’t do this.”

The idea followed me around. And so did Jasmina, emailing every now and then: “Found your guts yet?”

So I decided to test the waters with the safest client I could think of. Someone who might say no, but wouldn’t be angry about it. A non-awkward no. Oluwatosin.

He’s open-minded, friendly, and has a very good energy. I emailed him: “I want to ask a very personal question about a favor. Do you have time for a quick call?”

He called almost instantly: “How can I help?”

I pitched the book idea and told him Jasmina was the only other person on board so far. I admitted that I was anxious as hell about asking people and that I didn’t even know if I’d get enough stories to make it a real book. “And, unfortunately, I won’t be able to offer royalties. I have no idea if it’ll sell, like, at all. Think of it as a fanzine story rather than a book deal.”

He liked the idea but understood the tiny indie-passion-project scale. He lacked Jasmina’s full excitement, but still, he said yes.

Now I had two, what made it easier to email the next one with “Hey, do you have time to talk about a favor?”

I somehow pulled it off without making anyone angry (at least, as far as I know). And in the end, I got enough volunteers to turn what I thought might be an essay into a real book with 134 pages.

It was brutally hard asking for favors knowing I had nothing of equal value to offer back. They gained nothing tangible, just the good feeling of helping a project and being generous.

I never thought enough people would say yes voluntarily. When it turned out they did, it was mind-blowing and filled me with a deep sense of gratitude.

Step 2 was collecting the old emails and going through them alongside the follow-up stories people had shared. I printed everything out, read it all again, called clients with questions about the aftermath, and took more notes. Then I started stacking them into book order.

A book needs an emotional arc, but what I had was a random pile. So I arranged them to make sense, to keep readers entertained, and to give the best possible experience.

Next: rewriting the dreams and interpretations. You’ll notice in the book that the first two dreams get very detailed breakdowns, and that I pull back on them later on. The reason for that is simple: I wanted to show readers exactly how I decode dreams, and give them a roadmap to do their own. But I also knew that level of detail gets tiring fast. So I thought, readers would rather like to see the pace pick up.

Was it the right decision? Honestly, I don’t know. It is my first non-fiction project and I obviously do not have a publisher who makes those decisions for me. If you’ve read it, email me at oracle[at]empowering-spirit.com and tell me what you think about the pacing, I would really appreciate that.

And then comes the final step: I sent each rewritten dream back to the original dreamer for approval. “Did I tell your story in the way it deserves to be told? Do you have any privacy concerns? Is there anything that needs to be changed? Once it’s out it in the wild, we can’t undo it.”

Luckily nobody pulled their decision back. We tweaked some outcome-sections when there were relevant facts I did not include (mostly because people forgot to tell me before and then remembered when they went through the proof-reading-copy). I set the book in Reedsy and hit publish.

And here it is now. One of a kind. I really do not know if there is any other case study book out there like this one, but if so, I have not come across it by now. It is very unique and also honest. It is raw and not as polished as spiritual books usually are. But I think this is what makes it special and useful. It lacks all the exaggerations, the repeating of hearsay and the “follow these easy steps and get rich too”.

If you don’t really know how to decode your own dreams and how to bring all those dream-dictionary-interpretations for single symbols together for longer, more layered dreams, you can learn that here. If you’re curious if a dream ever really predicted something for someone, you can see other people’s stories here.

And this is it. No over-promising and under-delivering. Just honest work and grounded case-studies.

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