Purpurite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" A Note (-40) | A=432 Tuning | #105

I turn purple when I meet the light—as can you

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: A | Cents: -40 | Frequency: 430 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Frequencies | Octave: 4 | Bowl #: 105 ✨ Element: Purpurite 💎 | Body Resonance: Head, throat, sinuses, skull, cervical spine, brain cavity, upper energetic field 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫 🔮 Special Frequency: In tune with A=432 — aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz (Verdi tuning)

This Purpurite crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 430 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra and the head, throat, and upper energetic field. Purpurite supports the release of outdated patterns and the quiet opening of intuitive channels. When this frequency—aligned with A=432 tuning—meets a stone that transforms through contact with air, the experience is liberation without drama: spaciousness arriving softly at the crown.

BEST FOR

• Third eye activation during meditation or intuitive practices
• Sound healers working with clients, releasing inherited beliefs
• Anyone navigating life transitions who needs clarity without pressure
• Students or professionals seeking mental spaciousness before focused work
• Yoga teachers creating gentle openings in restorative classes
• Those ready to shed old patterns but tired of forcing change

ESSENCE

I am the stone that changes when touched by air. When you've been living in someone else's idea of who you should be—carrying beliefs you didn't choose, patterns that no longer fit—I create the conditions for release. Not through force. Through readiness. This bowl holds my transformation within quartz walls, sounding at a frequency that opens the upper channels and whispers: You can become what you were always meant to be, simply because the time has come.

THE ELEMENT

Purpurite is a manganese-iron phosphate mineral that forms through secondary alteration deep within pegmatite deposits. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, typically appearing as massive or botryoidal aggregates rather than distinct crystals. With a Mohs hardness of 4 to 4.5, it's relatively soft—a vulnerability that becomes part of its teaching. The most remarkable quality: purpurite rests colorless in the earth until exposure to oxygen transforms it to deep purple. No force required. Just contact with something larger than itself.

Primary deposits occur in Western Australia, Namibia, Brazil, and parts of the United States. First formally described in 1884, purpurite takes its name from the Latin purpura—a nod to the royal purple it becomes upon weathering. Indigenous Australian communities from pegmatite-rich regions have long honored purple-hued earth minerals for dreamtime connections and spiritual protection. In Tibetan Buddhist practices, deep purple stones support crown chakra meditation for accessing divine wisdom. Western esoteric traditions integrate it for third eye activation and psychic clarity.

When you work with purpurite, you're working with transformation as a natural process rather than a dramatic event. It supports the crown and third eye chakras, creating spaciousness where we store the stories we've outgrown. Divine Bowls' proprietary process integrates this mineral at the molecular level during formation—not as surface decoration, but as a structure that vibrates. The result is a bowl that carries purpurite's essential teaching: real change happens in whispers, not earthquakes.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 430 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and inner vision, vibrating through your head, throat, sinuses, and upper energetic field. When purpurite's quiet liberation meets this frequency, something specific happens. The third eye opens not through intensity but through permission. You may notice thoughts settling like sediment in still water, a clearing behind the forehead, insights arriving without the usual mental grasping. The 6-inch size creates intimate, potent sound ideal for personal practice or close work—a private conversation between you and your own becoming. This is a bowl for those who understand that freedom isn't something you chase. It's something you allow.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 430 Hz, placing it in our A=432 Tuning range—its frequency sits below concert pitch, producing a warmer, more organic quality with a gentle settling energy.

Bowls like this one align with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz, often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." Many people find frequencies in this range feel easier on the nervous system, with a quality that settles into the body rather than floating above it. The tone invites you down rather than pulling you up. If you have instruments tuned to A=432, 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 6 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with short to medium sustain—sound that speaks clearly, then releases, creating natural space between strikes. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice at your desk or bedside, close work in therapy rooms, quiet moments before a classroom lesson begins, or centering yourself before a presentation. It travels well. This size allows purpurite's quiet, transformative quality to express with focused clarity rather than overwhelming presence, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the head, throat, and upper energetic field.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need spaciousness without drama. Before meditation, when the mind feels cluttered. During transitions—new job, new home, new chapter. When old patterns keep surfacing, and you're tired of fighting them. Strike or rim the bowl and let the tone settle into your forehead and crown. Notice what loosens. You don't need to force release; purpurite's teaching is that transformation happens through readiness, not effort.

Use it to open your morning before the day's demands arrive. Play it during homework time when a child needs focus without pressure. Sound it before creative work when you're stuck in someone else's idea of what you should make. In professional settings, it supports clients in releasing inherited beliefs or navigating identity shifts. Athletes might find it useful for mental clarity before competition—clearing the noise so instinct can speak. The bowl doesn't require expertise. Strike it. Listen. Let the frequency do what frequencies do.

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 99.998% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

Some bowls arrive announcing transformation. This one simply creates the conditions for it—the way oxygen finds colorless stone and watches it turn purple. No force required. Just contact with something larger than yourself, and the quiet recognition that you can become what you were always meant to be.