Pluto in the 1st house

The 1st house is the self as others meet it. Pluto here gives presence. These people are felt before they are understood, and reactions to them tend to be strong in one direction or the other. Reinvention is a recurring theme: the person at forty may not resemble the one at twenty. Pluto crawls through a sign for years, so the house is the personal part of the placement. The cost is intensity that is hard to switch off, and a guardedness that reads as suspicion.