Lepidolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" A# Note | A=432 Tuning | #697

I am the soft exhale after holding your breath too long

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: A# | Cents: +19 | Frequency: 463 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: A#+19 | Bowl #: 697 ✨ Element: Lepidolite 💎 | Body Resonance: Head, throat, sinuses, skull, cervical spine, brain cavity, upper energetic field 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition | Cycle of Fifths: Between Throat (A) and Crown (E) - transitional sharp note 💫

This lepidolite crystal singing bowl sounds in A# at 463 Hz, resonating with the third eye and crown chakras and the upper body—head, throat, and brain cavity. Lepidolite supports nervous system regulation, emotional steadiness, and the kind of calm that comes from a system remembering it can rest. When lithium-rich mineral meets the elevated consciousness of A#, the experience is grounded transcendence: insight that settles rather than scatters.

BEST FOR

• Anxiety relief and nervous system regulation
• Students seeking focus during exams or intense study sessions
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Parents calming overstimulated children at homework or bedtime
• Those navigating grief, life transitions, or emotional overwhelm
• Sound healers supporting trauma release and emotional processing
• Anyone whose thoughts spiral faster than they can catch

ESSENCE

I am the soft exhale after holding your breath too long. When your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, when thoughts pile up instead of spacing themselves out, I create a frequency of enough. Not the manufactured calm of numbing, but the organic steadiness of a body remembering it can rest. Hold me. Breathe with me. I'll teach your shoulders they're allowed to drop.

THE ELEMENT

Lepidolite is a lithium-rich mica mineral, formed deep in granite pegmatites through slow magmatic cooling over millennia. Its layered, scaly structure—the source of its name, from Greek lepidos meaning "scale"—contains the highest natural concentration of lithium found in any mineral. This isn't metaphor: lithium is the element doctors prescribe when thoughts move too fast to catch, the compound that steadies storms inside human bodies. Lepidolite carries that same signature in crystalline form.

The mineral appears in soft lilac, purple, and pink shades, with a shimmer that catches light like mica dust on a forest floor. First formally named in 1861, lepidolite has been mined from Brazil, Madagascar, Russia, and the United States, valued both for its lithium content and its gentle beauty. Traditions across cultures have associated it with emotional equilibrium, placing it on altars for heart-opening ceremonies or holding it during breathwork to foster peace.

When lepidolite 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 calming signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces, creating resonance patterns unique to this instrument. People often describe lepidolite bowls as having a "softer" quality, a tone that settles into the body rather than bouncing off it. The element works primarily in emotional and mental landscapes—the territory where anxiety loops, where old patterns play on repeat, where the heart and mind argue about what's real.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A# at 463 Hz, resonating at the transition between the third eye and crown chakras in the Western diatonic system. The A# frequency carries the energetic quality of elevated consciousness and transcendent knowing—the space where intuition meets cosmic awareness. This vibration naturally targets the head, throat, sinuses, and upper energetic field.

When lepidolite's grounding lithium signature meets this elevated frequency, something interesting happens: the bowl doesn't pull you out of your body to reach higher states. Instead, it anchors insight. The calm that lepidolite creates becomes the container for whatever clarity the A# frequency reveals. People often notice thoughts spacing themselves out, the mental static quieting enough to hear what's underneath.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 463 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays A#+19. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is A#-12.)

This bowl is categorized in the A=432 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz—often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." Many people find A=432 produces a warmer, more organic quality that feels easier on the nervous system. If you have instruments tuned to A=432, or simply prefer this earth-connected sound, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them.

(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 the sound blooms quickly and fades gently, inviting repeated playing rather than extended listening to a single strike. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice, bedside use, small offices, or working closely with one person at a time. This size travels well, fitting easily into a bag for those who move between spaces.

The compact form allows lepidolite's settling quality to express with focused potency rather than diffuse presence. You feel this bowl more than you hear it across a room. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the upper body—head, throat, third eye—making it particularly suited for mental clarity work, calming racing thoughts, or supporting focus during study sessions.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your nervous system has forgotten how to downshift. When you've been scattered across too many obligations. When sleep feels impossible or thoughts won't stop circling. You don't need special training to work with lepidolite—just willingness to pause.

Start simply: place the bowl on a stable surface or hold it in your palm. Strike or rim the bowl and breathe. Notice where you feel the sound in your body—many people sense it in the head, throat, or chest. Let your exhale lengthen. You might use this bowl before difficult conversations, during homework time with anxious children, at the start of a meeting that needs grounding, or in the quiet before sleep. Teachers use it for classroom transitions. Therapists strike it between clients to clear the room and themselves. Athletes play it during visualization practice. There's no wrong way—the bowl creates conditions; you do the work of receiving.

If you're drawn to complementary practices, lepidolite pairs well with moonstone or amazonite placed nearby, or with chamomile tea sipped before your session. But none of that is required. The bowl is enough.

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

You know that feeling when your brain won't stop refreshing the same three thoughts like browser tabs you forgot to close? When your shoulders are somewhere up near your ears and you can't remember the last time you took a full breath? This bowl speaks that language.

Lepidolite carries lithium—the actual element doctors prescribe when thoughts move too fast to catch. When it's infused into quartz and sounds at 463 Hz, something settles. Not the forced calm of "just relax," but the organic kind—the body remembering it's allowed to rest. The A# frequency targets your head and throat, the places where overthinking lives. People say it feels like finally exhaling after holding your breath too long.

This is the bowl for 3am thoughts that won't quit. For the parent whose child can't settle at bedtime. For the student staring at textbooks, brain too scattered to focus. For the therapist who needs to clear the room between clients. For anyone whose nervous system forgot how to downshift. You don't need training in sound healing to work with this—you just need to be willing to pause.