Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" B Note | #872

Clarity learning to rest, wrapped in light you don't have to see

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: B | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 247 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: B+18 | Bowl #: 872 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Crown | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This Opaque Quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in B at 247 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra and the lower body's foundational energy centers. Opaque Quartz—also called milky quartz—offers the amplifying properties of pure quartz crystal in a softer, more diffused form. When crown frequency meets this gentle variety of earth's most abundant mineral, the experience is spiritual connection that feels held rather than exposed.

BEST FOR

• Crown chakra work and spiritual connection
• Nervous system regulation and gentle grounding
• Teachers creating calm transitions in classroom settings
• Sound healers supporting clients through grief or burnout
• Morning ritual and intention-setting before a busy day
• Parents helping children settle for homework or sleep
• Anyone navigating transitions, loss, or emotional integration

ESSENCE

I am clarity learning to rest. Where my clear cousins shine and refract, I diffuse—wrapping light in something softer, more private. When you've been pushing for answers before you've felt the questions, when the pressure to see everything at once has left you hollowed out, I am the bowl that says: you don't have to be clear right now. You can be clouded and still be whole.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque Quartz, known in nature as milky quartz, is silicon dioxide (SiO₂) whose usual transparency is softened by countless microscopic fluid and gas inclusions. These tiny pockets scatter light into a gentle, luminous glow—like morning mist held in stone. With a Mohs hardness of 7 and the same trigonal crystal structure as clear quartz, milky quartz carries identical piezoelectric properties: the ability to convert mechanical vibration into electrical signals and back again. This is the scientific foundation for quartz's role in precision instruments—and in sound healing.

Throughout human history, quartz has served as medicine object, seer stone, and ceremonial tool across cultures from ancient Greece to Indigenous traditions of the Americas and Australia. Where clear quartz is called the "master healer" for its amplifying clarity, milky quartz has long been associated with gentler work: emotional processing, dreamwork, and the slow integration of spiritual lessons. Its clouded appearance symbolizes the mystery of what's not yet visible—trust in the process of gradual revelation.

When Opaque Quartz is infused into a Divine Bowls singing bowl, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates. This isn't a surface coating—it's integration at the deepest level, achieved through proprietary technology refined over forty years. The resulting microstructure produces resonance patterns unique to this bowl: a tone people often describe as creamy, enveloping, like being wrapped in something steady and kind.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in B at 247 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra in the Western diatonic system. The B note carries the highest vibrational quality in the musical scale—the bridge between earthly experience and expanded consciousness. At 247 Hz, this frequency sits at the threshold between grounding lower-body resonance and ascending torso frequencies, creating a unique quality: spiritual opening that stays connected to the body.

When Opaque Quartz's softening, protective energy meets the crown frequency, something particular happens. Rather than the bright intensity some experience with crown chakra work, this combination creates conditions for gentle spiritual grounding. The milky quartz diffuses the frequency's reach, making transcendent states feel safe and contained. People often report feeling held during spiritual practice rather than unmoored—connection without overwhelm.

THE TUNING

Tuned to concert pitch (A=440), this bowl harmonizes naturally with modern musical instruments, recorded music, and other bowls in your collection. This standard tuning creates a balanced, universally compatible frequency—ideal for musicians integrating sound into their work, for anyone building a multi-bowl practice, or for those who simply appreciate the familiarity of conventional pitch. The accessibility of concert tuning means this bowl meets you where you are, requiring no adjustment or specialized knowledge to enjoy.

THE SIZE

At 9 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with long, sustained ring time that fills a room with extended harmonic overtones. The full, rich volume projects well with depth and presence, making it ideal for group settings, larger spaces, or anyone wanting sound that envelops rather than whispers. This size works beautifully in yoga studios, therapy rooms, and meditation spaces—but equally in living rooms, classrooms, or offices where collective calm is the goal.

The 9-inch diameter allows Opaque Quartz's soft, nurturing quality to express with substantial presence while remaining portable enough for travel. The third-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body—pelvis, hips, sitting bones—creating a grounding foundation even as the B note opens crown energy above. This is a bowl that anchors you while it lifts.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need permission to soften. After a week of too much input. During transitions—grief, growth, the disorientation of becoming someone new. When clarity feels too harsh and what you really need is to be held while you integrate. This is the bowl for the messy middle of any process, for self-compassion, for spiritual practice that doesn't demand you transcend your tenderness.

To begin, simply place the bowl on its O-ring on any stable surface—a table, the floor, your desk. Strike the rim gently with the mallet and let the tone wash over you. There's no wrong way to do this. You might place the bowl near you during morning journaling, play it before a difficult conversation, or sound it at the start of a family dinner to signal transition. Teachers use bowls like this to bring classrooms back to center; parents play them during homework time; athletes sound them before visualization practice. Let the sustained tone be your cue to soften your gaze, release your jaw, and trust what's unfolding.

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

You've been reading about softness for a while now. About rest, about not needing to be clear. Maybe that's exactly what caught you—the permission to stop pushing, to let something hold you while you figure out what comes next.

This bowl doesn't ask what credentials you bring or how you'll use it. It asks: do you need gentleness right now? The kind that doesn't erase difficulty but makes it possible to turn toward? The teacher calming thirty kids before a test needs the same thing the grief counselor needs, the same thing the person sitting alone at 3am trying to make sense of change needs. A frequency that says you can be clouded and still be whole.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you're still here, reading about milky quartz and crown chakra work that stays connected to the body, about sound that wraps rather than pierces—maybe this one already found you.