Purple Lace Agate Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note | #1166

I am the long companion, not the quick fix

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: +5 | Frequency: 278 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C#+36 | Bowl #: 1166

✨ Element: Purple Lace Agate 💎💜 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌬️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral transition 💫

This Purple Lace Agate crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 278 Hz, resonating at the transition between root and sacral chakras and vibrating through the torso, chest cavity, and core. Purple Lace Agate supports nervous system regulation and grounded creativity through patient, layered transformation. When this stone of slow becoming meets the awakening quality of C#, the experience is emergence that honors your own timing—clarity that rises from stillness rather than striving.

BEST FOR

• Nervous system regulation and deep relaxation
• Empaths and highly sensitive people seeking grounded protection
• Writers and artists breaking through creative blocks
• Students preparing for exams who need calm focus
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or overwhelm
• Parents creating bedtime calm for anxious children
• Anyone navigating slow transitions—grief, career change, healing

ESSENCE

I am the patient witness, the one who formed in darkness over millions of years, layer upon delicate layer. When you've been moving too fast, thinking too hard, carrying too much, I offer something radical: permission to slow down. This bowl holds my essence—purple threads lacing through quartz like ancient rivers frozen mid-flow—and when it sings, I remind you that healing, like my own formation, happens in steady accumulation. Not dramatic breakthroughs. Patient deposits of care.

THE ELEMENT

Purple Lace Agate is a microcrystalline form of quartz known as chalcedony, distinguished by delicate purple bands created by iron oxides and manganese during formation. Born in volcanic rock cavities where silica-rich groundwater deposited layer upon layer over 65 to 90 million years, this stone emerges primarily from Mexico's Chihuahua region, Brazil, and India. Its banded structure—fibers twisting helically to create lace-like patterns—registers 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs hardness scale, with a waxy luster and smooth texture like river stone.

Indigenous Mexican communities have long honored lace agates as gifts from earth spirits, using them in grounding ceremonies to harmonize with volcanic landscapes. In Eastern traditions, purple chalcedonies support mental clarity during meditation, while Western crystal practices employ agate for stabilizing emotional waters. The stone's layered formation mirrors the intricate pathways of the human nervous system—the hidden channels where tension pools and creativity waits.

When Purple Lace Agate 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 mineral's patient, grounding signature weaves into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe this bowl's tone as softer, more enveloping—sound that settles into the body rather than washing over it. When you work with this element, you're invited into layered time: the understanding that some patterns need to twist and double back before they reveal their purpose.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 278 Hz, resonating at the transition between root and sacral chakras in the Western diatonic system. The C# frequency carries the energetic quality of awakening and emergence—the moment between stillness and movement, between what was and what's becoming. This vibration moves through your torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and core, addressing the physical center where breath meets body.

When Purple Lace Agate's patient, grounding energy meets this transitional frequency, something particular happens. The stone's slow wisdom anchors the awakening quality of C#, creating emergence that doesn't rush or overwhelm. People notice this bowl invites them to the threshold without pushing them through—supporting readiness rather than forcing change.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 278 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays C#+5. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C#+36.)

This bowl is categorized as Concert Pitch because its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440. Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, recorded music, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you're a musician wanting to incorporate singing bowls into compositions, or simply want your bowl to blend with the music already in your life, this compatibility makes integration effortless.

(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, generous sustain—sound that continues to unfold and develop after the initial strike, rewarding patient listening. The full, rich volume fills group spaces comfortably while remaining intimate enough for personal use. This size allows Purple Lace Agate's layered, patient quality to express with depth and complexity, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the torso and core—the body's center of breath and stability.

This bowl works beautifully in therapy rooms and yoga studios, but equally in living rooms, classrooms, and offices. Its projection carries across a conference room for meeting openings, yet its grounding quality makes it ideal beside a bed or meditation cushion. The sustain gives you time to breathe, to settle, to notice what shifts.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you've been scattered across too many obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, when creativity feels blocked by mental loops. It serves the empath who absorbs too much, the student whose mind races before exams, the caregiver who gives endlessly and forgets to receive.

Begin simply. Place the bowl before you on its O-ring, or hold it in your palm if you prefer. Strike once and listen—not for anything specific, just listen. Let the sound find its way into your chest, your belly, your shoulders. You might notice tension you didn't know you were holding. You might notice nothing at all, and that's equally valid. There's no wrong way to receive sound. Teachers use this bowl to transition classrooms from chaos to focus. Athletes play it during visualization practice, letting the sustained tone anchor their mental rehearsal. Parents strike it once at bedtime, letting children follow the sound into stillness. Business teams begin meetings with a single tone, creating collective pause before diving into agendas.

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

I took 65 million years to become what I am. I'm not in a hurry now, and I won't rush you either. My purple bands are frozen rivers, my lace patterns are patience made visible, and when this bowl sings, I offer what I've always offered: the radical permission to slow down. I don't care if you're a sound healer or a software engineer, a parent stealing five minutes or an athlete finding center. I care that you're tired of being told to move faster. This is what I know: some things can only form in darkness, layer by layer, and that includes you.