Cobalt Calcite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A Note | C=528 Tuning | #1560

The permission to see yourself softly

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A | Cents: +40 | Frequency: 225 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: G#-29 | Bowl #: 1560 ✨ Element: Cobalt Calcite 💎💗 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This cobalt calcite crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 225 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra and the deep body zone including pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Cobalt calcite supports emotional restoration and self-compassion, traditionally associated with heart-opening and gentle renewal. When this mineral's tender pink essence meets the intuitive frequency of the third eye, the experience is one of seeing yourself clearly—and choosing kindness toward what you find.

BEST FOR

• Heart-opening meditation and self-compassion practice
• Caregivers needing restoration after giving to others
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Those navigating grief, burnout, or emotional depletion
• Teachers creating emotionally safe classroom environments
• Evening wind-down and releasing the day's accumulated tension
• Anyone rebuilding self-worth after difficult transitions

ESSENCE

I am the soft pink blush that rises when you finally exhale after holding your breath for months. When you've been performing strength until you've forgotten what tenderness feels like, I am the permission to soften. This bowl holds cobalt-kissed calcite crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the frequency of intuition and inner vision—an invitation to see yourself with the same compassion you offer everyone else.

THE ELEMENT

Cobalt calcite—also called cobaltoan calcite—is a calcium carbonate mineral distinguished by cobalt traces that paint it in shades from whisper-pink to coral glow. It forms slowly in hydrothermal veins and sedimentary quiet, layer by patient layer, primarily sourced from Morocco's Bou Azzer Mine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Peru. With a Mohs hardness of just 3, this mineral understands something essential: vulnerability isn't weakness.

The calcite family has served humanity for millennia. Ancient Egyptians built with limestone calcite; Vikings navigated by clear calcite's light-polarizing properties; Tibetan Buddhist practitioners incorporated calcite powders in purification rituals. Cobalt-rich varieties emerged in 19th-century European mining records, prized for their distinctive rose coloring and gentle energy.

When cobalt calcite 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 signature of patient tenderness is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. Traditions associate cobalt calcite with the heart chakra, self-love, and emotional renewal. People reach for it when their hearts feel depleted from overgiving, when self-criticism has become background noise, or when they're ready to practice self-compassion but don't know where to start. Working with this element invites you to notice where you've abandoned yourself—and choose differently.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 225 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and inner vision, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, and lower spine—the foundational structures that support everything above them. This creates an interesting dialogue: a frequency associated with seeing clearly, grounded through the body's base.

When cobalt calcite's heart-softening essence meets this intuitive frequency, something shifts. The combination supports not just feeling your emotions, but understanding them. People often notice a quality of gentle clarity—as if they can finally see the patterns of self-criticism or overgiving that have been running beneath awareness, and meet those patterns with compassion rather than judgment.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 225 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A+40 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is G#-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 gently energizing—a fitting complement to cobalt calcite's invitation toward self-love. (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 10 inches, this bowl produces Octave 3 tones with very long sustain—meaning each strike continues singing, filling space with sound that seems to breathe on its own. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for large group settings, ceremonial spaces, yoga studios, or living rooms where you want sound to reach every corner. It also serves classrooms during transition times, therapy offices between sessions, or any space where people gather and need collective settling.

This size allows cobalt calcite's gentle essence to express with full-bodied warmth rather than delicacy, while the Octave 3 resonance naturally targets the deep body—pelvis, hips, sitting bones. The combination creates sound you feel as much as hear, grounding the heart's tenderness through the body's foundation.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice the particular exhaustion of having given too much—to work, to family, to everyone but yourself. It serves the caregiver who needs care, the teacher who's held space all day, the parent who's been patient past their reserves, the professional who's absorbed others' stress. Play it in the evening as you release the day, or in the morning as you set an intention to be kinder to yourself.

Position the bowl on the floor or a stable surface and sit comfortably nearby. As you strike or circle the rim, place one hand on your heart. Notice what arises without trying to fix it. This isn't about forcing positivity—it's about creating conditions where what's been clenched can finally soften. You might use this bowl before difficult conversations to center yourself, after emotionally demanding work to reset, or simply as a daily practice of remembering that you, too, deserve tenderness. There's no wrong way to work with it. The bowl creates conditions; you do the work of receiving.

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

The caregiver who's held everyone else all day. The teacher who's been patient past their reserves. The person who's given and given until they've forgotten what it feels like to receive. If that's you—if you're reading this with a chest that feels both too full and too empty—this bowl knows that particular exhaustion.

Cobalt calcite doesn't arrive with demands or dramatic transformation. It settles in like the first full breath you've taken in months, asking only that you notice the tenderness you've been denying yourself. This 10-inch bowl carries that essence through deep, penetrating tones that fill space the way warmth spreads—slowly, completely, reaching the corners you didn't know were cold. The A frequency grounds intuition through your pelvis and hips, creating conditions where you can finally see the patterns of self-abandonment clearly enough to choose differently.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you've read this far and something in your chest loosened—even slightly—that's worth trusting. This one might be waiting for you.