Lock and key tattoos come in a great variety and can point to different qualities and personal values. The meaning of key is obvious as it has a power to close and open: if something is closed it is safe and protected, it can’t be lost or accessed, but when something is open it can be seen, accessed, complemented, enjoyed and it can be let out. The key is related to mystery, curiosity and life itself, but its meaning can be related to other values as well depending on the shape of a key. Its top can be designed in any form you wish. For Greeks a single key symbolized knowledge, but talisman of three keys together could unlock and bring love, health and wealth into one’s life.
To open something with a key, we need a keyhole. Keyhole or lock with keyhole is what guards your values in a safe place. If you want to get key and lock inked on your body, think what are your values you want to protect or gain by unlocking them! Knowledge, prosperity, strength, love, balance? The lock and key for your tattoo can be designed according to your personal interpretation, and you can also choose for you values appropriate placement on your body. By the way, a lock together with q key are symbols of female and male, where the lock stands for femininity and key for masculinity of course for their resemblance with reproductive organs and form of interaction.
Heart lock and key tattoo is probably the most common version of lock and key tattoos. Of course, it is related to love, and isn’t love the most important value if it covers all fields of wellbeing? Love to yourself, love to your family and friends, love for music or books, loving your job, your home, your hobbies, romantic love, passionate love, strong and unbreakable love – it’s always here in our lives in all possible forms and we feel happy feeling love and being loved. What about getting a heart shaped lock tattoo above your heart, but the lock for it on our hand? Isn’t this placement truly significant?
Lock and key tattoos for couples is a great choice, not only because of standing for feminine and masculine powers. It can symbolize balanced, harmonious relationship. If one of you gets a tattoo of a lock and another one has a key tattoo that fits the keyhole, it would show that you both are different but equal, none of you is more or less important but both together you can maintain strong relationship and protect your joint actions and values.
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