The beauty about today's alignment between the Sun and Mercury in a smart and intellectually savvy part of your chart isn't that it brings the Sun's transparency and Mercury's articulate and intellectually savvy edge together, making this an ideal time for talks, choices, decisions and plans, but the 20/20 hindsight and foresight it brings. With the Sun looking to the future but Mercury, in retrograde motion looking to the past, you've got a clear sense of where all the different pieces fit in together.