In Walking to Mercury, a younger Maya treks through Nepal carrying the ashes of her mother on her back as she searches for a reunion with her sister. Readers familiar with Starhawk's fiction may remember Maya as the 21st-century rebel leader who was introduced in The Fifth Sacred Thing. The word mercury conjures many images-the messenger god, the planet that rules over communication, the liquid metal that defies attempts to be held-images that form the backbone of Walking to Mercury, a story chronicling the early life of Maya Greenwood. Rich in wisdom, humor, and the luminous power of nature, Walking to Mercury emerges as an adventure of the inescapable forces that transcend all our lives and give them meaning. But if she goes back to him, she must reveal an intimate secret kept far too long-a secret that could shatter Maya's vision for the future. If she rejects Rio's offer, she will close a door forever on an opportunity to reclaim her past. Whatever Maya decides will have dire consequences. Now Rio, transformed by his own struggles, calls to her across ten thousand miles. In the letters from Rio Connolly-that wild, impulsive, doomed youth-she reenters the dreams they once built together as outlaws blazing a path for change. Union still challenged by convention and Johanna's fierce commitment to her African foremothers. In the journal given to her by Johanna Weaver-her soul sister, her mirror, her lover-she relives the ecstatic union they first formed as teenage rebels, a Yet the past proves heavier than Maya ever suspected, as she begins the laborious climb through a landscape of memories. Together, Maya hopes she and Debby can heal their fractured family bonds, allowing Maya to finally lay her past to rest and Seeking to reclaim her power, she goes on a pilgrimage to her sister Debby's remote mountain clinic in Nepal, their dead But now, approaching herįortieth year, she has lost her way.

Writer, priestess, and visionary Maya Greenwood has remained true to her one moment of connection to the land and its spirits.

Now, in Walking to Mercury, Starhawk tells the compelling story of the forces that shaped that extraordinary woman-a story that spans the decades from the tumultuous sixties to the present New Age. Synopsis: In The Fifth Sacred Thing, bestselling author Starhawk created an unforgettable portrait of a ninety-eight-year-old writer and rebel who led the forces of freedom in a twenty-first-century battle against a racist totalitarian regime.

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