Pyrite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C Note | #1193

I am the match, not the wood—you bring the burn

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C | Cents: +5 | Frequency: 262 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C+33 | Bowl #: 1193

✨ Element: Pyrite ⚙️ | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, feet, base of spine, lower body 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This pyrite crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 262 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and lower body. Pyrite supports personal power, mental clarity, and energetic protection. When the grounding force of iron-sulfur meets the foundational C frequency, the result is an instrument that helps you stand your ground—literally and figuratively.

BEST FOR

• Building confidence and personal power
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions
• Athletes preparing for competition or visualization work
• Students seeking focus for exams and deep concentration
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or depletion
• Breaking through procrastination and mental fog
• Setting energetic boundaries in draining environments

ESSENCE

I am the spark hidden in stone, the fire that sleeps in earth's belly until you strike me awake. When you've been circling a decision for weeks, when your gut knows but your head keeps negotiating—that's where I meet you. I don't whisper. I strike. This bowl holds my brass-bright frequency crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the note of foundation and will. I'm the match, not the wood. You bring something to burn.

THE ELEMENT

Pyrite is iron disulfide—iron married to sulfur in a 1:2 ratio, crystallizing into those distinctive brass-yellow cubes that catch light like tiny suns. Found worldwide in hydrothermal veins and metamorphic deposits, from the mines of Spain and Peru to the Upper Mississippi Valley, pyrite earned its name from the Greek pyr, meaning fire. Strike it against steel, and it sparks. That's not metaphor—that's chemistry, and it's been useful to humans for millennia.

Ancient peoples recognized this fire-starting capacity as something sacred. Prehistoric Europeans placed pyrite nodules in burial mounds around 3000 BCE. Native American cultures polished it into mirrors for vision quests and ceremonial scrying. Inca artisans incorporated its gold-like gleam into mosaics honoring solar deities. The mineral's association with fire, protection, and discernment runs deep across cultures—from Paracelsus's alchemical texts to shamanic solstice ceremonies where pyrite sparks kindled sacred flames.

When pyrite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the formation stage—not as a surface coating, but woven into the quartz itself. That iron-sulfur signature becomes part of what vibrates, producing resonance patterns with a quality people often describe as "sharper" or "more defined" than clear quartz alone. The mineral's protective, clarifying energy expresses through every frequency the bowl produces.

Working with pyrite supports the part of you that knows its worth but has forgotten how to stand in it. It creates conditions for mental sharpness, decisive action, and the kind of energetic boundaries that let you say no without guilt. This isn't the element for soft comfort or gentle processing—it's for when you need to cut through fog and move.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 262 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C frequency carries the energetic quality of foundation, stability, and grounded presence, vibrating through your lower body—pelvis, legs, feet, the base of the spine where your sense of safety lives.

When pyrite's fire-starting energy meets this foundational frequency, something interesting happens. The root chakra governs survival, security, and your right to be here. Pyrite governs will, discernment, and your right to take up space. Together, they create an instrument that doesn't just ground you—it grounds you in your own power. People often report feeling more solid afterward, less scattered, like their spine remembered how to hold them up.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 262 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays C+5 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C+33 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 play music, work with other musicians, or want your bowl to blend seamlessly with recorded tracks, this compatibility makes integration effortless. The technical specifications include an A=432 equivalent so those with instruments tuned to that reference can see exactly how this bowl fits their setup.

(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 medium sustain—long enough to let the sound develop fully, short enough to layer phrases or move through sequences without muddiness. The moderate volume fills a room without overwhelming it, making this size versatile across contexts: personal morning rituals, therapy offices, yoga studios, conference rooms, or classroom transitions.

This size allows pyrite's sharp, clarifying energy to express with presence and definition. The fourth-octave C resonates through the lower body with enough depth to feel grounding, while remaining clear and articulate. It's substantial enough for professional use, portable enough to move between spaces, and intimate enough for personal practice.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to make a decision, set a boundary, or cut through the mental noise that's been circling for days. It's particularly useful at transitions—beginning a workday, preparing for a difficult conversation, centering before a presentation or competition, or resetting after an energy-draining interaction.

Start simply. Place the bowl on its O-ring, take a breath, and let the mallet circle the rim until the tone builds. Notice where you feel the vibration in your body—many people sense it in the gut, that solar plexus space where personal power sits coiled. You don't need to do anything special. Just let the sound remind your nervous system what clarity feels like. Try three minutes before a meeting that requires your full presence. Play it after scrolling too long, when your attention feels scattered across a thousand tabs. Use it to mark the boundary between work and rest, between giving and receiving.

For teams, a single strike can open a meeting with shared intention—a moment of collective pause before diving into agendas. For students, it can signal the shift into focus mode, a sonic boundary around study time. For athletes, it supports the visualization and centering that precede peak performance. For anyone who gives care to others, it's a tool for claiming your own reset.

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 people need soft comfort. A gentle hand. Permission to rest.

This isn't that bowl.

I'm pyrite—iron married to sulfur, brass-bright and unapologetic. I don't soothe. I spark. That decision you've been circling for weeks? I'm the flint that says enough. The boundary you've been too polite to hold? I'll help you plant it like a flag.

This 9-inch bowl sounds at C, 262 Hz—root chakra territory, where your right to exist meets your right to take up space. Concert pitch, so I'll play nice with your piano, your guitar, whatever else lives in your world. But playing nice isn't the same as playing soft.

I'm for the executive who needs three minutes of spine before the board meeting. The teacher reclaiming their classroom. The athlete visualizing victory. The parent who's given everything to everyone else today and needs one clear tone that says you're still here.

Fool's gold, they call me. I wear it like a badge. Because the real treasure isn't what glitters—it's what ignites.

I'm here. Bring something to burn. 🔥