Dioptase Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" A# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1016

I witness what you're ready to stop carrying

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: A# | Cents: +40 | Frequency: 477 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: B-29 | Bowl #: 1016

✨ Element: Dioptase 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ❤️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition 💫

This dioptase crystal singing bowl sounds in A# at 477 Hz, resonating at the threshold between third eye and crown chakras while vibrating through the chest, heart, and core. Dioptase supports emotional release, heart-centered clarity, and the transformation of old relational patterns. When this copper-green mineral meets a frequency associated with transcendent knowing, the result is insight that moves through the body rather than bypassing it.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and heart-opening meditation
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Those navigating grief, betrayal, or relationship transitions
• Caregivers needing their own moment of restoration
• Writers and creatives working through emotional blocks
• Anyone ready to examine patterns they've outgrown
• Self-compassion practice and inner dialogue work

ESSENCE

I am the stone that watches you see yourself. When you've been circling the same wound for years, when forgiveness feels like a foreign language, I hold the frequency that says: you are safe enough now to stop pretending. I do not soothe or bypass. I witness. And in that witnessing, something old begins to loosen its grip.

THE ELEMENT

Dioptase is a copper cyclosilicate mineral, its emerald-green crystals forming in the oxidized zones of copper deposits where metal meets water and breakdown becomes beauty. First formally named in 1797—from Greek roots meaning "to see through"—this rare mineral was sometimes mistaken for emerald due to its vivid color and glassy brilliance. It forms in arid copper districts across Namibia, Kazakhstan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the American Southwest, emerging where copper-rich fluids interact with silica over geological time.

In contemporary wellness practice, dioptase is regarded as a specialized heart stone, used when someone is ready to work with deep emotional patterns rather than simply manage symptoms. Practitioners place it at the heart or high heart during sessions focused on forgiveness, relational wounds, and the transformation of scarcity consciousness into trust. Its reputation is for "gentle intensity"—creating conditions where you can feel everything without being consumed by it.

When dioptase is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates. This isn't a surface coating—the mineral integrates at the molecular level during formation, creating a unique microstructure within the quartz itself. That structure is what sings when you play the bowl, producing resonance patterns that carry dioptase's emotional signature in ways no other instrument can replicate.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A# at 477 Hz, resonating at the transition point between third eye and crown chakras in the Western diatonic system. The A# frequency carries an energetic quality of transcendent knowing and cosmic awareness—a sharp note that cuts through fog and invites clarity. This vibration moves through your torso, chest cavity, heart, and core, creating physical resonance in the very areas where emotional holding tends to accumulate.

When dioptase's heart-focused energy meets this frequency of expanded perception, something interesting happens. The mineral works in the territory of emotional truth while the frequency opens channels of higher knowing. Together, they create conditions for insight that isn't merely intellectual—you don't just understand your patterns, you feel them shift in your body. People often describe this combination as "seeing clearly while feeling deeply."

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 477 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A#+40 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is B-29 cents.)

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that many find energizing—a fitting complement to dioptase's work of bringing buried emotional material into the light. If you have instruments tuned to C=528, 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—sounds that speak clearly and then release, rather than lingering indefinitely. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice, bedside rituals, therapy rooms, or anywhere you're working close to the body. This size travels easily between rooms or to sessions outside your home.

The compact form allows dioptase's focused, insistent energy to express with precision rather than diffusion. You're not filling a yoga studio; you're having a conversation. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the upper body and head, which pairs well with dioptase's work at the heart and the frequency's connection to expanded awareness. This is a bowl for close work—the kind where you're ready to look at something directly.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're ready to stop circling and start facing. That might mean the morning after a difficult conversation, the quiet hour when you're finally willing to examine a pattern you've been avoiding, or the transition point in a therapy session when something is ready to surface. This isn't a daily-carry bowl for most people—its frequency is too focused for casual use. But when the moment arrives, you'll know.

Begin by placing the bowl at heart level, either on your body or nearby. Strike or rim the bowl and let the sound meet whatever is present in your chest. You don't need to manufacture emotion or force anything to happen. Simply notice what arises—tightness, memory, relief, nothing at all. Dioptase doesn't demand performance. It holds space for whatever is true. Breathe into your heart center. If tears come, let them. If clarity comes, receive it. If nothing comes, trust that too.

For therapists transitioning between clients, a single strike can clear the residue of one person's story before receiving another. For writers working through emotional material, playing the bowl before sitting down can help distinguish between what's yours to write and what you've been avoiding. For anyone navigating grief or relationship transition, this bowl offers a witness—something that holds steady while you feel what you need to feel.

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've been carrying something heavy in your chest—old hurt that calcified into identity, a story about scarcity you inherited and never questioned, the quiet belief that your tenderness makes you weak. This bowl doesn't arrive to comfort you with platitudes. It arrives because you're finally ready to look at what you've been holding.

Dioptase works in the territory of the heart—not the romantic heart, but the one that remembers every moment you closed down to protect yourself. When this copper-green mineral meets a frequency of transcendent knowing at 477 Hz, something shifts. You don't just understand your patterns intellectually. You feel them move through your chest, your core, the places where emotional holding lives in your body.

This is a bowl for close work. The kind where you stop circling and start facing. Strike it once before the difficult conversation. Play it in the quiet hour when you're ready to examine what you've been avoiding. Let it witness the transition point in therapy when something is finally ready to surface. It doesn't demand performance. It simply holds space for whatever is true—tightness, memory, relief, nothing at all.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you've read this far, if something in your chest recognized itself in these words, trust that. This one might be waiting for you.