Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" D# Note (+36) | Uplift Frequencies | #2689

I am the soft white stone that holds light without showing you through

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: D# | Cents: +36 | Frequency: 317 Hz | Tuning: Uplift Frequencies | Octave: 4 | Bowl #: 2689 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine 🌬️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral/Solar Plexus transition | Cycle of Fifths: N/A 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in D# at 317 Hz, resonating with the sacral-solar plexus transition and the core of the body—chest, diaphragm, and mid-spine. Opaque quartz supports mental clarity and emotional spaciousness through gentle amplification rather than overwhelming intensity. When this transitional frequency meets quartz in its softest, most nurturing form, the experience is one of steady presence: grounding that doesn't demand, clarity that arrives slowly.

BEST FOR

• Creating calm transitions between activities in classrooms or meetings
• Sound healers working with clients who feel overwhelmed or scattered
• Morning rituals that need gentle activation without jarring energy
• Parents establishing peaceful bedtime or homework routines
• Anyone rebuilding trust in their own process after burnout
• Athletes seeking centered focus before competition or recovery
• Personal meditation practice emphasizing patience over breakthrough

ESSENCE

I am the soft white stone that holds light without showing you through to the other side. When your thoughts have become a tangle and your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I don't cut through—I illuminate one strand at a time until you can follow it yourself. This bowl asks you to trust the haze, to believe that opacity is not emptiness, and that the most profound clarity sometimes arrives wrapped in softness, like light through milk-white quartz at dawn.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is pure crystal in its most essential form—99.998% silicon dioxide, the same composition as its transparent cousin, distinguished only by what happened during formation. Microscopic inclusions scatter light throughout the stone, creating that characteristic milky luminosity rather than glass-like clarity. This is not an absence of purity but a different expression of it: quartz that chose softness.

The mineral forms in igneous and metamorphic environments worldwide, from Brazilian highlands to Alpine veins, wherever silica-rich solutions cool slowly enough to crystallize. For thirteen thousand years, humans have shaped quartz into tools, amulets, and sacred objects. Ancient Egyptians carved it into protective scarabs. Greek and Roman craftsmen ground it into lenses and seals. The Curie brothers documented its piezoelectric properties in 1880—the ability to generate electric charge under pressure—which helps explain why practitioners report such responsive resonance during sound work.

In Divine Bowls' proprietary process, this pure quartz forms at over 3,000°F into a single seamless vessel. The microscopic air inclusions that create opacity distribute evenly throughout, producing a surface that feels like smooth river stone and a tone that people describe as warmer, more enveloping than clear quartz. Traditionally called the "master healer," quartz amplifies whatever intention the person brings—not by adding something external, but by creating conditions where your own clarity can emerge.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D# at 317 Hz, a transitional note that bridges the sacral and solar plexus chakras in the Western diatonic system. D# carries the energetic quality of breath, release, and transformation—the sharp edge of a note that lives between two centers of power. The frequency vibrates through your torso, chest cavity, and diaphragm, the places where you hold tension and where breath either flows freely or catches.

At octave 4, this is an intimate frequency. The sustain is short to medium, the volume personal rather than room-filling—ideal for close work, individual practice, or small group settings. When opaque quartz's patient, grounding presence meets this transitional frequency, the result is activation without aggression. People notice a sense of spaciousness in the chest, a softening of the breath, the feeling that there's room to hold whatever they're carrying without being consumed by it. This is the long game made audible: steady presence, quiet persistence, clarity that accumulates rather than strikes.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 317 Hz, placing it in our Uplift range—its frequency sits above concert pitch, producing a brighter, more energizing quality.

Uplift bowls have an awakening character—sounds that enliven rather than sedate. These frequencies are valued for clearing stagnation, stimulating movement, enhancing mental clarity, and bringing fresh energy to spaces or states that have become stuck. Yet paired with opaque quartz's inherently soft, grounding nature, this particular bowl offers activation without overwhelm—brightness tempered by patience.

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—meaning each strike delivers a clear, defined voice that gently fades rather than lingering indefinitely. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice at your bedside or desk, close work in therapy rooms, calming transitions in classrooms, or centering moments before meetings. Portable enough to travel with you, powerful enough to shift the energy of a small room. This size allows opaque quartz's gentle amplification to express with focused clarity, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the chest, diaphragm, and core—the places where breath and tension meet.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need gentle activation rather than dramatic shift. Strike it once before sitting down to work, letting the tone settle your attention. Play it during transitions—between meetings, before homework, as the signal that one thing has ended and another begins. Use it when you feel scattered but don't want to be pushed harder. The short sustain means you can play it in brief moments without the sound overstaying its welcome.

Notice what happens in your chest when the tone fades. Many people report a softening there, a sense of more room. You might find your breath deepening without effort. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl—three mindful strikes before your morning coffee counts. So does a longer session exploring how the mallet's pressure changes the voice. Let curiosity guide you. The bowl responds to your intention, whatever form that takes.

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 themselves. This one simply appears beside you—soft white stone holding light it doesn't need to explain. Opaque quartz is the long game made audible: patient, steady, asking nothing of you except presence. It won't cut through your scattered thoughts or demand you be ready for transformation. It will illuminate one strand at a time until you can follow it yourself. The tone is intimate, the sustain brief enough to fit between meetings or before the house wakes. This bowl is here—available to the teacher stealing a moment of quiet, the athlete centering before competition, the person who just likes how it sounds. No credentials required. No spiritual vocabulary necessary. Just you, and a frequency that trusts you to find your own way through the haze.