Moonstone Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" D Note | #1114

I am the shimmer between sleep and waking

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: D | Cents: +5 | Frequency: 589 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D+37 | Bowl #: 1114

✨ Element: Moonstone 🌙 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 💚 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This moonstone crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 589 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and heart region. Moonstone supports emotional attunement, intuitive development, and connection to natural rhythms. When the creative, flowing energy of D meets moonstone's gentle lunar qualities, the result is an instrument that helps restore inner balance without forcing outcomes.

BEST FOR

• Emotional balance and intuitive development
• Sound healers supporting clients through life transitions
• Teachers creating calm during classroom transitions
• Those navigating hormonal shifts, grief, or new beginnings
• Evening wind-down and sleep preparation rituals
• Meditation deepening and dreamwork exploration
• Anyone seeking to reconnect with their natural rhythms

ESSENCE

I am the shimmer between sleep and waking, the light that moves beneath still water. When you've been pushing against your own tide—forcing decisions before they're ready, ignoring the quiet voice beneath the noise—I am the permission to soften. This bowl holds moonstone crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the frequency of creative flow and emotional truth. I don't fix or force. I simply hold space for your natural cycles to find their groove again.

THE ELEMENT

Moonstone is a feldspar mineral composed of potassium aluminum silicate, formed through slow magma cooling deep within the Earth's crust. This gradual process creates fine alternating layers that produce adularescence—the signature billowing, bluish glow that seems to move beneath the stone's surface like moonlight on water. Key deposits include Sri Lanka, known for transparent specimens with blue adularescence, and India, where opaque, creamy varieties emerge from ancient geological formations.

For millennia, cultures worldwide have reached for moonstone during times of transition. Ancient Romans believed it formed from solidified moonbeams and carried it for wisdom and safe travel. In India, Sanskrit texts named it from "chandra" (moon) and "kanta" (beloved), honoring its connection to fertility and feminine cycles. Greek traditions linked it to Hecate and lunar goddesses, while Ayurvedic practitioners have long used it to support emotional harmony and balance the body's natural rhythms.

When moonstone 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 gentle, receptive signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe moonstone bowls as having a softer, more enveloping quality—sound that doesn't demand attention but invites you to settle into it. When you work with this element, you're invited to trust what you sense but cannot yet see, to honor the ebb as much as the flow, and to remember that not everything requires force.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 589 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries the energetic quality of creativity, emotional flow, and gentle movement—vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, heart, and core. In the Cycle of Fifths system, this same frequency connects to the heart center, creating a bridge between creative expression and emotional truth.

When moonstone's lunar, receptive nature meets the flowing quality of D, something particular happens: the bowl supports emotional release without overwhelm. The sacral center governs creativity, sensuality, and our relationship with change—all territories where moonstone has been traditionally honored. People often notice this combination helps them access feelings that have been held too tightly, allowing what needs to move to finally flow.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 589 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays D+5 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D+37 cents.)

This bowl is categorized as Concert Pitch because its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440. Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, orchestras, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you're a musician wanting to incorporate crystal bowls into recordings, or if you simply want your bowl to blend seamlessly with background music during yoga classes or meditation sessions, this compatibility makes integration effortless.

(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 fourth-octave tones with long, sustained resonance—sound that continues to unfold and develop well after the mallet leaves the rim. The full, rich volume fills larger spaces naturally, making it equally suited for group sound baths, yoga studios, and living rooms where you want the sound to envelop rather than merely accompany. This size allows moonstone's gentle, receptive quality to express with warmth and depth, while the mid-range resonance naturally targets the torso, chest, and core—the body's emotional center. For those who travel between locations or move the bowl between rooms, 9 inches offers a balance of presence and portability.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice yourself pushing against your own grain—when decisions feel forced, when you're ignoring what your body knows, when the pace of life has disconnected you from your natural rhythms. It's equally valuable during times of transition: new beginnings, endings, the threshold spaces between who you were and who you're becoming. Teachers might play it during classroom transitions to help students settle after recess or shift focus between subjects. Those caring for aging parents or navigating their own grief may find it offers a moment of softening when everything feels tight. Athletes and performers can use it during visualization or recovery, allowing the nervous system to reset after intense output.

Begin simply: strike the bowl once and follow the sound with your attention. Notice how the tone seems to breathe—swelling and receding like a tide. You might place one hand on your lower belly (the sacral area) while listening, feeling for any response in your body. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. Some people play it during full moons, honoring moonstone's lunar connection. Others reach for it before sleep, letting the sustained tone ease the transition from waking to rest. Parents have found it helpful for settling children at bedtime—the long sustain creates a natural container for winding down.

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 sounds don't ask anything of you. They simply arrive—like moonlight finding water, like the exhale you didn't know you were holding.

This bowl carries moonstone's gentle insistence that not everything requires force. The D frequency moves through the body's emotional center with the quality of tides: pull and release, pull and release. It's the kind of sound that creates space for whatever needs to surface—or for nothing at all, if what you need is simply three minutes of something beautiful before the day begins.

Moonstone doesn't demand belief or background. It offers the same thing to the sound healer and the software engineer, the exhausted teacher and the athlete coming down from competition: permission to soften. To trust the rhythm your body already knows.

This bowl ships from our Ohio workshop, formed in a single seamless vessel, ready to become part of whatever life you're building.