Purple Ruby Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1167

For when performing aliveness is no longer enough

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: +20 | Frequency: 561 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D-48 ✨ Element: Purple Ruby 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🔥 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral transition 💫

This Purple Ruby crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 561 Hz, resonating with the transition between Root and Sacral chakras and vibrating through the torso, chest cavity, and core. Purple Ruby supports vitality, emotional courage, and grounded passion. When the fire of ruby meets this awakening frequency, the experience is one of emergence—life-force rising through the body with clarity and purpose.

BEST FOR

• Vitality and life-force activation
• Athletes preparing for competition or recovering after performance
• Leaders and executives stepping into high-stakes moments
• Those navigating major life transitions or threshold decisions
• Creatives breaking through blocks and reclaiming passion
• Anyone ready to stop performing aliveness and start living it
• Sound healers supporting clients through depletion or stagnation

ESSENCE

I am the stone that burns without consuming. When you've been running on fumes, performing energy you don't feel, hiding your intensity to keep others comfortable—I meet you there. I don't shame exhaustion. I reignite what hasn't died, only dimmed. This bowl carries the fire that moves blood, the courage that doesn't flinch, the passion that stays when comfort runs out.

THE ELEMENT

Ruby is the red variety of corundum, an aluminum oxide mineral colored by traces of chromium, with additional iron or titanium shifting some stones toward the purplish-red glow that gives this bowl its name. With a Mohs hardness of 9—second only to diamond—ruby has been treasured since at least 200 BCE, when it was called ratnaraj: the king of precious stones. Major sources include Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Mozambique, where these crystals form under intense metamorphic pressure deep within the earth.

Throughout history, warriors embedded rubies under their skin as talismans of invincibility. Indian texts describe ruby as enhancing dignity, leadership, and vitality. Burmese spiritual traditions considered it embodied protective fire. In Western alchemical traditions, ruby symbolized perfected fire—the fully realized heart. These aren't just stories; they're centuries of human experience recognizing something essential in this stone's energy.

When Purple Ruby is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a surface coating, but a true integration. The chromium-rich microstructure that gives ruby its fire is woven into every frequency this bowl produces. People often describe the resulting tone as having unusual warmth and presence, a quality of aliveness that clear quartz alone doesn't carry. The purple tint emerges during formation alongside the ruby's essence—color, infusion, and structure born as one.

Working with Purple Ruby invites you to reconnect with your own fire. This isn't about forcing energy you don't have; it's about remembering what's been dimmed by exhaustion, obligation, or the habit of making yourself smaller. Ruby works primarily at the root and heart—the base of your spine where survival meets vitality, and the center of your chest where love meets will. It creates conditions for grounded passion: desire that knows its own bones, devotion that doesn't abandon the body.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 561 Hz, carrying the energetic quality of transition, awakening, and emergence. In the Western diatonic system, C# sits between the Root and Sacral chakras—a threshold frequency that bridges grounding and creative life-force. The vibration moves through your torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and core, targeting the physical center where breath and heartbeat meet.

When ruby's fierce vitality meets this awakening frequency, something particular happens. The C# doesn't soothe or sedate—it stirs. Combined with ruby's fire, this bowl supports the moment of deciding: to act, to speak, to stop waiting for permission. People often notice a warmth rising from the lower body, a quickening in the chest, a sense of coming home to their own aliveness.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 561 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays C#+20 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D-48 cents.

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that pairs naturally with ruby's activating energy. If you have instruments tuned to C=528, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them. For fine adjustment, adding water to the bowl lowers the pitch slightly—a technique some use to dial in precise intervals when playing with other instruments.

THE SIZE

At 9 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with long sustain—meaning each strike continues singing, filling space with sound that doesn't rush to fade. The full, rich volume makes it ideal for group settings, yoga classes, team meetings, or any room where sound needs to reach multiple people. It's equally powerful for personal use when you want the frequency to envelop you completely rather than require close listening.

This size allows Purple Ruby's fierce vitality to express with full presence—nothing held back, nothing tentative. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body and core, grounding the fire so it warms without overwhelming. Whether you're using this bowl to open a staff meeting, prepare for athletic competition, or simply reclaim your morning before the household wakes, the 9-inch size delivers sound that commands attention without demanding it.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you've been running on empty, when you need to make a decision you've been avoiding, or when something in you is ready to stop apologizing for the size of your presence. It serves the athlete visualizing before competition, the executive about to walk into a difficult conversation, the parent who needs three minutes of fierce self-reclamation before the kids wake up.

To begin, place the bowl on its O-ring on a stable surface. Take one full breath—not to calm yourself, but to arrive. Strike the bowl once and let the sound fill your chest. Notice where you feel it in your body. Ruby doesn't ask you to relax; it asks you to inhabit. You might place one hand on your lower belly and one on your heart, feeling the vibration bridge these two centers. Some people find it helpful to ask a simple question while the bowl sings: What would I do if I trusted my own fire? Let the answer rise without editing it.

This bowl also serves beautifully for clearing stagnant energy in spaces—offices that have absorbed too much stress, creative studios where momentum has stalled, treatment rooms between clients. The C# frequency and ruby's activating presence don't just fill a room; they wake it up.

Each Divine Bowls singing bowl includes a pure quartz mallet wrapped in premium silicone for optimal resonance, plus a silicone O-ring for stable playing on hard surfaces. Every bowl is formed in a single seamless vessel from 99.995% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

Still here?

Ruby doesn't mind. It's not going anywhere—fire that's burned for millennia doesn't get impatient with a few more moments of consideration.

This bowl is for the morning before the meeting that matters. For the athlete who needs to remember what their body already knows. For the parent who gets three minutes alone and wants those minutes to count. For anyone who's been running on fumes and is ready to stop.

It ships from our Ohio workshop with everything you need to begin: quartz mallet, silicone O-ring, and fifty years of craft in a single seamless vessel. The rest—what you do with the fire once it's lit—that's yours.