Stibnite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 8" C# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1880

I don't look away, and neither will you

🎵 Size: 8" | Note: C# | Cents: +25 | Frequency: 281 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D-44 | Bowl #: 1880 ✨ Element: Stibnite 🪨 | Body Resonance: Head, face, eyes, temples, forehead 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This stibnite crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 281 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra and the head and face. Stibnite supports mental clarity, grounded discernment, and focused perception that cuts through confusion. When this ancient mineral of sight meets the penetrating frequency of the third eye, the result is sound that settles scattered thoughts and creates conditions for honest recognition.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and focused concentration during deep work
• Sound healers supporting clients through confusion or overwhelm
• Students preparing for exams or navigating difficult material
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions or presentations
• Writers and creatives breaking through mental fog
• Those ready to see patterns they've been avoiding
• Establishing energetic boundaries and protective discernment

ESSENCE

I am the one who shows you what you've been avoiding seeing. Not harshly—I'm too soft for that, flexible enough to bend before I break. But I don't look away. When you've been circling the same confusion, the same fear dressed up as logic, I simply create the conditions where seeing becomes easier than not-seeing. I am the truth you've been preparing to tell yourself.

THE ELEMENT

Stibnite is antimony trisulfide, a soft metallic grey mineral that forms in hydrothermal environments where hot, mineral-rich fluids move through cracks in the Earth's crust. With a hardness of only 2 on the Mohs scale, stibnite possesses an unusual flexibility—thin crystals can bend slightly before breaking, a rare trait among metallic minerals. Its natural striations, those parallel grooves running along each crystal face, are pathways carved by patient transformation over geological time.

For five thousand years, humans have reached for stibnite when they needed to see more clearly. Ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Mesopotamians ground it into kohl and lined their eyes—not merely for beauty, but for vision. The application was ritualistic, believed to enhance both physical sight and intuitive perception. Alchemists later valued antimony as a powerful transformer, its Latin name antimonium meaning "opposed to solitude"—a recognition of how this mineral refuses to let comfortable delusions stand unchallenged.

When stibnite 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 at the crystalline level. The mineral's grounding, clarifying signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe this bowl's tone as penetrating yet stabilizing, a sound that encourages movement beyond surface-level awareness into deeper clarity. When you work with stibnite, you're working with humanity's oldest ally for honest sight—now resonating through sacred sound.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 281 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C# frequency carries the energetic quality of insight and perception, vibrating through the head and face where our organs of sight and cognition reside. This is the note of the inner eye, the frequency that supports seeing what's actually there rather than what we wish were there.

When stibnite's ancient clarity meets this third eye frequency, something particular happens. The mineral that lined the eyes of Egyptian priestesses now vibrates at the pitch most associated with inner vision. People notice their scattered thoughts beginning to settle, like sediment drifting down through water until the surface goes quiet. The combination doesn't force insight—it creates the conditions where recognition becomes easier than avoidance.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 281 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays C#+25 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D-44 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. While stibnite's energy is more about clarity than sweetness, this brighter tuning adds an uplifting quality to the bowl's penetrating tone. The slightly elevated pitch creates a clarifying resonance that many find mentally energizing—well-suited to stibnite's role as truth-revealer. 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 8 inches, this bowl produces fourth octave tones with medium sustain—long enough to settle into, brief enough to maintain focus and intention. The moderate volume fills a room without overwhelming it, making this size versatile across contexts: a home office during deep work sessions, a therapy room between clients, a classroom during transitions, or a meeting space before important decisions. This size allows stibnite's grounding precision to express with clarity and directness, while the fourth octave resonance naturally targets the head and face—the very zones where we process perception and make meaning of what we see.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're tired of your own stories. When you've been circling the same confusion, when clarity feels just out of reach, when you need to see something you've been avoiding. Play it before writing sessions when you need to cut through mental fog, before difficult conversations where honesty matters, or at the end of a scattered day when your thoughts need settling.

Begin simply: strike the bowl once and let the sound move through you. Notice where your attention goes. Stibnite doesn't demand elaborate ritual—it responds to honest intention. You might place one hand on your forehead, connecting physically to the third eye space this frequency addresses. Breathe normally. Let your thoughts drift down like sediment until the surface of your mind goes still. Teachers use this bowl to help students transition into focused work. Therapists play it between sessions to clear the residue of one person's story before receiving another. Athletes use it during visualization practice, when seeing the path clearly matters more than forcing outcomes. Parents find it helpful when children are spinning with anxiety—the grounding quality settles without sedating.

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 clear seeing.

INVITATION

Stibnite doesn't mind the pause. It's been waiting five thousand years for people ready to see clearly—it can wait a few more minutes while you decide.

This is a bowl for the moments when you're done circling. When the fog has been fog long enough. When you'd rather know than wonder. It won't push you toward anything—that's not how clarity works. It simply makes seeing easier than not-seeing, and trusts you to do the rest.

The bowl ships to you with a pure quartz mallet and silicone O-ring, ready to work whenever you are. And if today isn't the day? That's honest too. Stibnite respects honest.