On April 20th, Francoise Arati passed away in her home
country, France, after an enduring battle with cancer. She was 66 years old.
Françoise was an architect by profession and active in urban
affairs for years in Mayotte, just off the coast of South East Africa. After a
change in her life, she immersed herself fully in the study of the Tarot and
co-authored a book on the same, ‘Pelerinage
du mat dans le tarot de Marseille’. Having come into contact with the works
of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Satprem, she left for Pondicherry around 2000
where she lived near the Ashram, helping, among other things, with the final stages
of the translation into French of the Life Divine.
In 2003, Françoise joined Auroville, where she lived in
Arati (which community, bizarrely, carried her name), and steadily worked as
therapist and tarot reader in Pitanga, helping many an Aurovilian through
moments of inner need and stress while always placing their situation in the
light and con...
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