Opaque Quartz Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" A Note | #873

I am the stone that remembers everything

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: A | Cents: +50 | Frequency: 227 Hz | Tuning: Uplift Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: A#-16 | Bowl #: 873 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This Opaque Quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 227 Hz, resonating with the Third Eye chakra and the lower body—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Opaque Quartz is pure quartz crystal in its most essential form, supporting clarity, amplification, and grounded presence. When intuitive frequency meets the master healer stone, the experience is vision that stays rooted in the body.

BEST FOR

• Grounding meditation and mental clarity practices
• Executives centering before presentations or difficult decisions
• Students seeking focus for deep study or exam preparation
• Sound healers building foundational bowl collections
• Creating calm for anxious children at homework or bedtime
• Athletes preparing for competition or post-game recovery
• Writers and creatives breaking through mental fog

ESSENCE

I am the stone that remembers everything. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when your thoughts spin faster than you can catch them, I am the presence that says: settle. This bowl holds pure quartz in its milky, luminous form—the master healer crystal sounding at the frequency of intuition. I don't add anything new. I reveal what's already there beneath the noise.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque Quartz is silicon dioxide in its purest expression—the same mineral that forms clear crystal, but with evenly dispersed microscopic air inclusions throughout its structure, creating that characteristic milky luminosity. Like milky quartz found in nature, this formation scatters light softly rather than transmitting it directly, producing an appearance that glows from within.

For forty thousand years, humans have shaped quartz into tools, amulets, and sacred objects. The Greeks named it krystallos, believing it was ice frozen so completely it would never melt. Aboriginal healers called it maban, using it to channel vibrational energy for physical and spiritual balance. Across Tibetan Buddhist practices, quartz crystals amplify mantras and meditation. This isn't a stone that belongs to any single tradition—it belongs to all of them.

When quartz is formed into a singing bowl through Divine Bowls' seamless molding process, its molecular structure becomes the instrument itself. The piezoelectric properties that make quartz generate charge under pressure also make it an extraordinary resonator—each vibration traveling freely through the one-piece vessel without interruption. Opaque quartz produces what many describe as a softer, warmer tone than its clear counterpart. People report an enveloping quality, like being wrapped in sound rather than pierced by it.

Working with Opaque Quartz invites you into simplicity. This is the universal instrument—no agenda, pure amplification. Whatever intention you bring, the bowl reflects and magnifies. It creates conditions for what practitioners call "clearing": that moment when scattered thoughts settle like snow globes coming to rest.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 227 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—the capacity to see clearly beyond surface appearances. This vibration moves through your lower body, grounding through the pelvis, hips, and sitting bones while simultaneously opening channels of insight.

When Opaque Quartz's clarifying presence meets the Third Eye frequency, something interesting happens: vision becomes embodied. Rather than intuition floating somewhere above you, disconnected from practical reality, this combination anchors knowing into the body. You might notice thoughts settling, mental chatter quieting, a sense of seeing more clearly not because you're trying harder, but because the noise has simply stopped.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 227 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A+50 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is A#-16 cents.

This bowl is categorized as Uplift Tuning because its frequency falls above the C=528 range, producing a brighter, more energizing quality. These frequencies have an awakening character—sounds that enliven rather than sedate. Valued for clearing stagnation, stimulating mental clarity, and bringing fresh energy to spaces or states that have become stuck. The slightly elevated pitch creates a quality many find clarifying and refreshing.

(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 third-octave tones with long, sustained resonance—sound that continues to unfold and develop well after the initial strike. The full, rich volume fills larger spaces easily, making it ideal for group sound circles, yoga studios, classrooms, or open living areas. This size also works beautifully for individual practice when you want sound that envelops rather than merely accompanies.

The 9-inch diameter allows Opaque Quartz's grounding warmth to express with presence and authority, while the third-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body—pelvis, hips, legs, and your foundational connection to earth. This creates an interesting interplay: a Third Eye frequency delivered through a size that grounds through the base.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your mind won't stop spinning. When you've been living in your head—planning, analyzing, worrying—and you need to come back down into your body. The combination of clarifying frequency and grounding size makes this bowl particularly effective for transitions: the moment between work and home, the pause before a difficult conversation, the breath before you begin.

Start simply. Place the bowl on its O-ring, take three slow breaths, and strike once. Let the sound unfold completely before you do anything else. Notice where you feel the vibration—many people report sensation in the lower belly or hips despite the bowl's association with intuition. This is the bowl teaching you something: that clear seeing requires a stable foundation.

For morning routine, a single strike can set intention for the day. For classroom transitions, the sustained tone gives students time to shift gears. For pre-presentation centering, the clarifying frequency helps cut through anxiety. For bedtime with children, the soft warmth of opaque quartz often feels less intense than brighter bowls. There's no wrong way to work with this instrument—only your way, discovered through listening.

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

Some bowls arrive with elaborate stories. This one arrives with forty thousand years of simply being what it is: silicon and oxygen, locked in an endless geometric dance, waiting to show you what's already there beneath the noise.

Opaque Quartz doesn't add anything. It amplifies. It clarifies. It holds steady while the spinning settles—whether that spinning happens in a meditation room, a classroom, a kitchen at 5am, or a conference room before the hard conversation.