That distinction may be one of the most useful things you carry out of this retrograde.

As Mercury clears its shadow around August 6, you may notice that the mental loop finally breaks, and the answer you have been trying to find through another conversation, another explanation or another round of thinking becomes much simpler than expected. You may realise that you do not need another person’s agreement in order to make a personal decision, that you are allowed to change your mind after receiving new information, or that a situation you kept trying to understand is actually perfectly understandable once you stop assuming everybody involved was acting with the same intentions you were.