Citrine Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6.5" A Note | A=432 Tuning | #1335

I am sunlight that cooled into courage

🎵 Size: 6.5" | Note: A | Cents: -40 | Frequency: 430 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: A-8 | Bowl #: 1335 ✨ Element: Citrine 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ☀️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This citrine crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 430 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and solar plexus. Citrine supports confidence, emotional clarity, and the courage to show up authentically. When this sun-holding stone meets the intuitive frequency of A, the result is grounded optimism—vision that doesn't float away but anchors in the body where it can become action.

BEST FOR

• Morning ritual and energizing intention-setting
• Writers and creatives breaking through blocks
• Students preparing for exams or presentations
• Teams beginning meetings with clarity and momentum
• Sound healers supporting clients through self-doubt or stagnation
• Athletes visualizing success before competition
• Anyone navigating career transitions or financial anxiety

ESSENCE

I am the warmth that lingers after storm clouds part. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when the grey seasons live inside your ribcage rather than on the calendar, I sit beside you—a steady ember—and remind your body what warmth feels like. Not the manic heat of forced positivity, but the bone-deep thaw of coming home to yourself. You're allowed to want things. You're allowed to take up space. That's my invitation.

THE ELEMENT

Citrine is silicon dioxide with trace iron inclusions—the same base material as clear quartz, transformed by what was present during its formation deep in the earth. It emerges from volcanic environments where fire met patience, cooling slowly in geodes across Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay, Madagascar, and scattered deposits worldwide. Natural citrine is genuinely rare; its pale gold to vibrant yellow-orange hues develop over millennia as iron whispers into the crystalline structure.

Ancient Greeks carved citrine into protective intaglios around 300 BC. Romans associated it with Mercury, god of commerce and swift communication. Chinese healers called it the "stone of success," while Scottish Highlanders carried it for prosperity from the 1600s onward. Across cultures and centuries, citrine earned its reputation not through magic but through consistent use: people reached for it when they needed to remember their own power without performing it.

When citrine 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 iron-trace signature that gives citrine its golden warmth is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. This is why people often describe citrine bowls as having a "brighter" or "more alive" quality than clear quartz alone. The element's traditional associations with the solar plexus—that golden wheel of personal power just above the navel—translate into sound that many find activating without being aggressive. Working with citrine invites you to metabolize what you've been carrying: the criticism, the comparison, the stories about your own smallness.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 430 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and vision, vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, and core. In the Cycle of Fifths system, this same note connects to the throat chakra—the center of authentic expression and speaking your truth.

When citrine's solar plexus activation meets the third eye's intuitive clarity, something practical happens: you can see what you want AND feel confident enough to pursue it. This isn't abstract visualization. It's the frequency of showing up as yourself, which is the only abundance that matters. People often report that this combination helps them make decisions that have felt impossible—cutting through the fog of overthinking with warmth rather than force.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 430 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays A-8 cents. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is A-40 cents.)

This bowl is categorized in the A=432 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz—often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." Many people find A=432 produces a warmer, more organic quality that feels easier on the nervous system. If you have instruments tuned to A=432, or simply prefer this earth-connected sound, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them. The technical specifications show both reference systems so you know exactly how this bowl fits your setup—the same sound, just labeled differently depending on which tuning standard you use.

(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—meaning the sound blooms quickly and settles naturally, perfect for punctuating transitions or marking the beginning of focused work. The intimate-to-balanced volume makes it ideal for personal morning rituals, bedside use, small group settings, therapy rooms, or office desks where you need presence without overwhelming the space.

This size allows citrine's activating warmth to express with clarity and directness rather than diffusion. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the upper-mid body—chest, solar plexus, diaphragm—exactly where citrine's traditional solar plexus work lands. Portable enough to move between rooms or pack for travel, substantial enough to feel like a real instrument in your hands.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to remember that your light matters. Before the presentation that makes your palms sweat. During the morning when you're setting intentions for a job search. At the start of a team meeting that needs momentum instead of dread. When your child is anxious about a test. When you're staring at a blank page or canvas. When the inner critic has been running the show and you need a different voice.

Play the bowl and let the sound land in your center—that space just above your navel where you hold tension about "enough." You don't need to do anything special. Just notice where the warmth settles. Some people place a hand on their solar plexus while listening. Some pair this bowl with actual citrine stones nearby, or a cup of golden tea, or simply morning sunlight through a window. 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 99.998% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

Some mornings you need a sound that doesn't ask you to be anywhere other than where you are. This bowl offers that—warmth without urgency, clarity without force. Citrine formed over millennia where fire met patience, and that's the quality it carries: steady light that doesn't demand you perform optimism, just allows you to remember your own. The A frequency moves through your center, your chest, the places where decisions get stuck. Whether you're starting a meeting, settling a classroom, breaking through a blank page, or just stealing three minutes before the house wakes—this is a bowl for people who are tired of pushing and ready to try something softer. It ships from our Ohio workshop whenever you're ready. No rush. The warmth will keep.