US admits to torturing prisoners

On Friday, President Barack Obama previewed the upcoming release of a Senate report into the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation after the attacks of September 11, 2001, saying “we tortured some folks.” TIME

In mundane astrology, the importance of the Capricorn Ingress chart cannot be overstated. Astrologers look upon it as the Annual Chart for a place. Here is the sidereal Capricorn Ingress of the Sun drawn for Washington DC.  Notice how powerful it is with the Grand Cross on the angles. Progressing the chart by the PSSR method to Friday, August 1, the date of the news aligns the Cross with the horizontal axis triggering, among other things, the Kronos-Hades combination on the Ascendant. Martha Wescott provides the following delineation.

HADES: Disgusting things; debilitation or deterioration; mistakes; interest in the past; research; investigation into the root cause of problems.

KRONOS: Leaders; those in authoritative positions

Kronos-Hades

Leaders, executives admit having done degrading things or having made mistakes; they discuss the past or investigations.