facility, discipline, perseverance

Chops refer to a musician’s technical skills. An accomplished player is said to have “great chops”; if we need to hone our skills, we say we need to “get our chops up.”

The Chops card refers to facility, to dexterity and adeptness; it implies discipline and perseverance. The Chops card can indicate an obsession with work or discipline, however, if our need for better-stronger-faster is operating unconsciously: we may have our self-worth tied up with our notions of success, for example, or perhaps be immersing ourselves in work to hide from something else.

To divine the meaning of this card in a casting, consider the Solfege Die it was drawn above or under.

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