Purpurite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" B Note | A=432 Tuning | #788

I don't float. I root—through crown to earth.

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: B | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 247 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: B+18 | Bowl #: 788 ✨ Element: Purpurite 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Crown | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This Purpurite crystal singing bowl sounds in B at 247 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra and vibrating through the pelvis, hips, and lower body. Purpurite supports grounded spiritual connection and emotional stabilization during times of transition. When crown frequency meets this rare manganese phosphate mineral, the experience is spirituality that roots through the body rather than floating above it—transcendence with weight.

BEST FOR

• Grounding meditation and root chakra stabilization
• Sound healers supporting clients through anxiety or overwhelm
• Teachers creating focused, settled classroom environments
• Morning ritual before demanding workdays
• Athletes and performers centering before competition
• Anyone navigating grief, transition, or emotional release
• Creating calm in home spaces for families with active children

ESSENCE

I am the purple beneath your feet—not sky-born, but forged in the slow oxidation of stone. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I meet you in the body first. Not in visions or downloads, but in the soles of your feet remembering they can hold you. This bowl holds the memory of patient alchemy: how pressure becomes beauty, how loss reveals essence.

THE ELEMENT

Purpurite is a manganese iron phosphate mineral, its chemical formula MnPO₄ carrying variable iron that creates its signature reddish-purple to deep rose coloration. This rare mineral forms through oxidation in granite pegmatites, where lithium leaches away and manganese surrenders to air over millennia—a geological process of transformation through release. Primary deposits occur in Namibia's Usakos and Tsumeb mines, Western Australia, the Czech Republic, and North Carolina, USA, where it was first scientifically identified in 1905.

The mineral appears as velvety masses with an earthy, grounding texture—nothing glossy or ethereal about it. This density is precisely what makes purpurite distinctive. When integrated into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary infusion process, purpurite's molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates. The mineral doesn't coat the surface; it weaves into the quartz itself during formation at over 3,000°F, creating resonance patterns unique to this instrument.

Indigenous communities near pegmatite regions have long gathered purple earth minerals for protective purposes, attributing grounding strength to manganese-rich stones. Western crystal healing traditions associate purpurite with root chakra stabilization, drawing on its density and earthbound formation. When you work with this element, you're invited to honor what's heavy rather than escape it—to recognize that profound change emerges from oxidized depths, much like purpurite's own creation.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in B at 247 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra in the Western diatonic system. The B frequency carries the energetic quality of spirituality, connection, and unity—the highest note in the diatonic scale, traditionally associated with divine consciousness and expanded awareness. Yet this 9-inch bowl produces third-octave tones that vibrate through your pelvis, hips, and lower spine, creating an unusual pairing: crown consciousness grounded through the body's foundation.

When purpurite's earthy, stabilizing presence meets this crown frequency, something distinctive emerges. Rather than spiritual experience that floats or dissociates, you may notice awareness that descends—settling into your sitting bones, anchoring through your legs, meeting the earth. People often describe this combination as "coming home while reaching up," a simultaneous grounding and opening that serves anyone who tends to live in their head.

THE TUNING

This bowl is tuned to A=440 concert pitch, the standard tuning used by orchestras and modern instruments worldwide. Concert pitch offers a familiar frequency foundation—if you play guitar, piano, or any tuned instrument, this bowl will harmonize without adjustment. This accessibility makes it ideal for musicians integrating sound into their creative practice, for educators using multiple instruments in classroom settings, or for anyone wanting compatibility with recorded music during meditation or ritual.

THE SIZE

At 9 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with long, sustained resonance—play it once and the sound continues, filling space without demanding repeated attention. The full, rich volume projects easily through larger rooms, making it effective for group settings, classrooms, yoga studios, or open-plan offices. Yet it remains manageable for home use, fitting comfortably on a desk, bedside table, or meditation corner.

This size allows purpurite's grounding density to express with substantial presence. The low-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body—pelvis, hips, legs—creating physical sensation you can feel, not just hear. For anyone who struggles to "get out of their head," this combination of size and element offers direct, embodied experience. The sound doesn't ask you to visualize or imagine; it simply meets your body where it sits.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice yourself spinning—too many tabs open mentally, too much time spent planning instead of present, that familiar feeling of being everywhere except here. You don't need a meditation practice or special training. Simply find a comfortable seat, place the bowl on its O-ring nearby or on the floor between your feet, and play it once with the mallet.

Let the sound do the work. As the tone sustains, notice where you feel it in your body—perhaps warmth in your lower back, a settling sensation in your hips, or simply your breath deepening without effort. Teachers might play this bowl during classroom transitions, giving students thirty seconds of sound before shifting activities. Parents might use it as a bedtime signal, replacing verbal reminders with a tone that says "we're settling now." Business teams might open meetings with a single strike, creating collective pause before diving into agendas. Athletes might play it during visualization, anchoring focus in the body before competition.

There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. Some people play it daily; others reach for it only when they need grounding. Some position it on their body during rest; others simply let it sing from across the room. Trust what you notice.

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 any surface. 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 don't call to everyone. I'm looking for the ones who've gathered a hundred crystals but forgotten their own gravity. The sensitive souls leaking energy, the seekers who live in their heads, the humans who need permission to stop climbing and start standing. You'll know if I'm yours—not because you should work with purpurite or because B-note fits your chart, but because reading this felt like remembering something your body already knew. I won't make you fearless. I'll make you present with fear. I won't erase your heaviness; I'll help you recognize it as the very material of transformation. If that sounds like the work you're ready for, I'm the purple beneath your feet, waiting.