First House: Recent Karma?

During last night's Teleclass with Ellias Lonsdale, he said the first house holds karma from a recent lifetime, possibly even the last one. It's karma that builds up from times when we haven't been true to the authentic self.
Any planet in the first is broadcast out as the persona. And with a challenging planet like Pluto here, the end goal is to broadcast the core essence by burning off what's not authentic. Some of the new children, Ellias said, are coming in fully themselves, and he mentioned his daughter whose Pluto is in the 1st.

This idea of recent karma intrigues me. I've got Saturn in Aries, in the first house, and have had impressions/dreams of being in Vietnam, and have always been drawn to that in movies and books. It would've had to have been right before I was born, in '67. Perhaps I'm meant to be a more disciplined warrior in this life? Ellias related his own experience of having Neptune in the first house. That it's been an experience of losing everything familiar. With a Neptunian persona, and on the day that Neptune stationed direct, maybe it's no wonder that the class felt like it was held underwater. This fog of our times is hitting everyone, even those that have been in roles of spiritual guide. It's as if we're all swimming in very new waters together.

Mark Borax asked at one point if Ellias could speak to the wrenching experiences people are going through these days. And Ellias said it's to do with the Pluto cycle, just into Capricorn. That it's hitting us at the body level, in order to be grounded in an earthy way. He described the Plutonian descent as a time when "everything bottoms out, and then gets rediscovered in being lost." Something tells me we're still in the falling stage.

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