It’s been a rough day. For some reason, I just keep dropping my keys. So, of course, it got me thinking—I was inspired to write. So, that means it’s time for us to sit down together and talk about the spiritual meaning of dropping your keys.
Settle in, because it turns out keys are absolutely fascinating symbols with tons of spiritual meaning!
A good place for us to start is with keys themselves. To understand the spiritual meaning of dropping your keys, it helps to know what the keys themselves represent. Without knowing that, we can’t know what it means to drop them.
Table of Contents
- What Do Keys Represent?
- Meaning of Dropping Your Keys
- Dropping Keys, Dropping Knowledge
- Dropped Your Keys and Locked Out?
- Locked Out of the Halls of Power
- Lost Loved Ones and the Spirit Realm
- Dropped Your Keys? Drop Your Significant Other?!
What Do Keys Represent?
Keys have been used as symbols for centuries, likely since their inception, and they convey several spiritual and symbolic meanings. For example, the coat of arms of the German city of Bremen has featured a key since the 1300s.
Let’s start by establishing a few quick reference points for the spiritual and symbolic meaning of keys. We’ve put together a quick list to help bring you up to speed on the topic.
- Secret knowledge, the arcane, esoteric, and elusive.
- Protection, security, safety.
- Power, control, influence, and the restriction/flow of those.
- Access/connection to the spirit realm.
- Love, romance, the key to somebody’s heart.
Meaning of Dropping Your Keys
We commonly use our “grip” as a metaphor. For example, when somebody is “losing their grip on things” it means that an emotion, a part of their life, or their mental health is becoming difficult to maintain. Another good example is the classic phrase “they dropped the ball”. In sport, it means that they messed up, the opposition got the ball, and probably scored. In broader life, it has become an idiom for failure.
So, as you can imagine, it makes for grim reading when it comes to the spiritual meaning of dropping your keys. Ultimately, dropping your keys means losing your grip on what the keys represent. Don’t be too bummed out, though. Remember, the future isn’t set in stone and you dropping your keys isn’t an inescapable prophecy—on the contrary, it can be taken as a spiritual message to focus on and improve certain corners of your life.
Dropping Keys, Dropping Knowledge
To some, keys represent the ability to unlock mysteries and gain secret knowledge. We’ve all seen the movies where the protagonist discovers an ancient book, thick with dust, and adorned with a lock. Such a book must, surely, contain arcane knowledge. The kind of information that might be dangerous in the wrong hands!
So, that means when you find yourself dropping your keys, you’re wrestling with your grip on special knowledge. Deciphering this spiritual message will depend on your personal context. For example, are you struggling to keep up with school or work learning requirements? In which case, seek help from those around you. Or, perhaps, an old family recipe is at risk of being lost—i.e. dropping precious knowledge. Remember, you can always keep your recipes on the cloud these days!
Dropped Your Keys and Locked Out?
To lots of people, keys symbolize protection and security—after all, the lock and key on our own homes protects us from unwanted visitors. In fact, there are several home security companies whose logo features a lock and key.
This is something to reflect on if you keep dropping your keys. Are you being figuratively locked out of your own home? To unravel this spiritual message, as always, depends on your personal situation, experience, and feeling. It could be a message from your guardians that you’re not spending enough time at home with your family. Alternatively, it could be an alert that somebody is in danger of being ostracized in the home.
Another interpretation—perhaps, the universe is sending you a message to make sure your home is safe and secure? While home invasions are rare, it’s often a good idea to double check on security issues. Of course, the spiritual message could be more symbolic than literal. As mentioned above, it could be that the issues in the home are more related to feelings and relationships between the inhabitants, visitors, and/or would be visitors. Worth considering!
Locked Out of the Halls of Power
In some cultures, keys represent the overt and covert conduits of power and authority. Those who hold the keys, have the power and let it flow. Whereas, those without the keys, hold little sway and have no control of how, where, and when influence moves. A good way to explain this spiritual meaning is to think of government buildings—i.e. the halls of power. Such locations are kept under lock and key.
As such, it’s possible that the spiritual message of dropped keys relates to a loss of control. This is especially relevant for those in charge of delegating power to others. If you find yourself constantly dropping your keys and have taken it as a synchronicity, then ask yourself if you are losing influence in important areas of your life.
Lost Loved Ones and the Spirit Realm
Also, we must consider the spiritual realm. Keys can represent the doorway to other worlds and dimensions, such as the life beyond this life. As such, a set of keys can represent our connection to lost loved ones. This is especially the case if the keys in question unlock the home you once shared together.
If you find you are regularly dropping your keys, it could be time to reflect on lost loved ones. Especially those, as mentioned above, that shared the home with you. Your keys are symbolic of the keys to the spiritual realm as well as being the literal keys to your home. Keys represent the bond housemates, family or otherwise, share.
Dropped Your Keys? Drop Your Significant Other?!
People say that when you have the key to somebody’s heart, you hold power over their entire world. Therefore, housekeys, as mundane as they may seem, represent the power loved ones hold with each other. Of course, this isn’t a good or a bad thing. If you trust and love someone, then you probably don’t mind if they influence your life to a degree. However, if somebody has proven unworthy of trust, then it could become a problem.
And that’s where dropping your house keys comes into it! Dropping a set of keys can be analyzed as symbolic of a relationship in trouble, i.e. the loss of the keys to the house represents the loss of keys to another’s heart.
Of course, it would be unwise to take dating advice from your keys—maybe you keep dropping them because you got bacon grease on them when you made breakfast that morning. However, spiritually-minded people, like us, will find meaning in the world around us—there’s nothing wrong with that. But, instead of taking rash action upon reading this, instead use it as an opportunity to reflect on your relationship and, if necessary, seek advice from trusted family and friends.
Further Reading
We’re a hapless bunch here at Symbols and Synchronicity—we’re always dropping things, losing things, and breaking things. So, it’s only natural that those are the kind of things we find ourselves writing about.
So, for your reading convenience, here’s a list of related articles—click around, you’ll enjoy reading them.