Purple Ruby Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6.5" B Note | #917

Transcendence that remembers its roots

🎵 Size: 6.5" | Note: B | Cents: -45 | Frequency: 481 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: B-13 | Bowl #: 917 ✨ Element: Purple Ruby 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ❤️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Crown | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This Purple Ruby crystal singing bowl sounds in B at 481 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and heart center. Purple Ruby supports sustained vitality, emotional resilience, and the kind of courage that doesn't burn out. When crown consciousness meets ruby's grounding fire, the experience is spiritual connection anchored through the body—transcendence that remembers its roots.

BEST FOR

• Vitality restoration after burnout or depletion
• Athletes preparing for competition or recovering afterward
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions
• Sound healers supporting clients through major life transitions
• Those rebuilding boundaries after relationships that required self-abandonment
• Parents needing a reset between caregiving and their own needs
• Anyone ready to stop performing strength and start feeling it

ESSENCE

I am the blood of mountains, the fire that refuses to dim. When you're tired of pretending you're fine, when your courage has become performance rather than presence, I arrive not as a spark that burns out but as the coal bed that holds heat through the night. This bowl carries the memory of impossible pressure transformed into brilliance—an invitation to trust your own endurance.

THE ELEMENT

Ruby is corundum—aluminum oxide crystallized under metamorphic heat with trace chromium creating its signature red fire. With a Mohs hardness of nine, it ranks among earth's most durable gemstones, formed in the crush of tectonic pressure where ordinary minerals become extraordinary. The finest specimens emerge from Myanmar's Mogok Valley, though significant deposits exist throughout Thailand, Madagascar, and India. This bowl's purple-red hue reflects ruby's deeper registers—not the color of emergency, but of a heart that has learned to beat strong and slow.

Human relationship with ruby stretches back to 2500 BCE India, where it was carved into protective amulets and seals. Burmese miners reverently extracted what they called "pigeon blood" stones for shamanic rituals honoring warrior strength and earth connection. In Ayurvedic tradition, ruby (manik) balances pitta and supports heart vitality. Tibetan Buddhism employs it in malas for compassion practices. Medieval alchemists valued it for vitality elixirs, while Hindu wedding ceremonies use ruby to symbolize eternal, protective love.

When ruby is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the deepest level—not a surface coating, but a fundamental change in what vibrates. The chromium-bearing microstructure becomes part of the quartz itself, producing resonance patterns unique to this combination. People often describe ruby-infused bowls as having a "warmer" or "more embodied" quality—sound that settles into the bones rather than floating above the body.

Working with purple ruby invites you into a specific kind of strength: the sustainable kind. This element supports those rebuilding after depletion, setting boundaries without apology, and allowing passion to return as caring deeply rather than burning recklessly. It meets you at the root—where survival instincts live—and rises to the heart with love that protects what matters.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in B at 481 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra in the Western diatonic system. The B frequency carries the energetic quality of spirituality, connection, and unity—the highest note in the chakra scale, associated with consciousness that extends beyond individual identity. This vibration naturally targets the torso, chest cavity, heart, and lungs, creating felt resonance through your core.

When ruby's grounding fire meets crown frequency, something unexpected happens: spiritual opening that doesn't disconnect you from your body. The crown chakra can sometimes pull awareness upward and away; ruby's root-and-heart energy keeps you anchored while you expand. People often notice warmth pooling in the lower belly even as awareness opens at the crown—transcendence that remembers where it lives.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 481 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays B-45 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is B-13 cents.

This bowl is categorized as Grounding Tuning because its frequency falls below the A=432 range, producing an even deeper, more anchoring quality. These frequencies have an inward-drawing character—sounds that settle rather than stimulate. The slightly flattened pitch creates a quality many describe as "heavier" or "more rooted," making it particularly effective for calming active minds, supporting deep energetic work, or helping anyone who needs profound grounding. For those with A=432-tuned instruments, this bowl lands close to that system while offering additional depth.

(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 6.5 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with short to medium sustain—sound that speaks clearly, then releases, creating natural space for breath and integration. The intimate-to-balanced volume makes it ideal for personal practice, bedside rituals, small group settings, therapy rooms, or anywhere you want presence without overwhelm. This size travels well between rooms or to sessions, fits comfortably on a desk or nightstand, and works beautifully for one-on-one work.

This compact size allows purple ruby's protective fire to express with focused intensity rather than diffusion. The fourth-octave crown resonance targets the upper-mid body—chest, heart, lungs—while remaining portable enough for the athlete's locker room, the executive's office, or the parent's bedroom sanctuary.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're tired of performing resilience and ready to feel it. When you've been scattered across obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, when you need to remember that you've survived every challenge before this one. Play it before difficult conversations where you need boundaries without aggression. Use it after giving care to others—the pause that refills your own well. Bring it to morning rituals when you need sustainable energy rather than caffeine's spike and crash.

To begin, simply strike the bowl once and breathe. Notice where the sound lands in your body—many people feel warmth in the chest or lower belly. You might place one hand on your heart as the tone fades, acknowledging your own endurance. For deeper work, try playing the bowl while seated with feet flat on the floor, letting the crown frequency open while your roots stay grounded. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. The frequency doesn't ask for credentials or correct technique—it simply meets you where you are.

Athletes find this bowl valuable for pre-competition centering and post-game recovery. Teachers use it to mark transitions in classrooms. Coaches play it before team visualizations. Therapists strike it between clients to clear the room and themselves. Business leaders begin meetings with a single tone to signal collective presence. Parents play it at homework time or bedtime to help children settle. The applications are as varied as the people who use sound.

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

This is a bowl for the morning after you finally said no. For the athlete who needs to recover without losing their edge. For the parent who gave everything to everyone else and forgot to save some.

Purple ruby doesn't arrive with fanfare. It arrives like a coal bed that held heat through the night—still warm, still ready, still here. The kind of vitality that doesn't demand performance. The kind of strength that lets you show up tomorrow.