Hessonite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" C Note | #969

Earth wisdom rising through the crown

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: C | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 1046 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 5 | A=432 Equivalent: C+31 | Bowl #: 969

✨ Element: Hessonite 💎 | Body Resonance: Head, throat, sinuses, skull, cervical spine, brain cavity, upper energetic field 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This Hessonite garnet crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 1046 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and upper body—head, throat, and crown space. Hessonite supports grounded presence and steady vitality, traditionally valued for anchoring scattered energy and restoring a felt sense of belonging. When root-chakra grounding meets this high-octave C, the experience is earth wisdom expressed through the crown—foundation rising to meet awareness.

BEST FOR

• Grounding meditation and nervous system regulation
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions or presentations
• Students seeking steady focus for exams and deep study
• Sound healers supporting clients through anxiety or scattered states
• Athletes preparing for competition or recovering after performance
• Parents helping anxious children settle at homework or bedtime
• Anyone navigating transition who needs to feel their own ground

ESSENCE

I am the ember that never burns out—warm cinnamon light held steady in stone. When you've been running too fast, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I am the substance that says: come home to your body. This bowl carries hessonite's patient weight crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the highest octave of root consciousness—an invitation to bring earth wisdom into your crown.

THE ELEMENT

Hessonite garnet is a calcium-aluminum silicate mineral, a variety of grossular garnet formed in metamorphic zones where limestone meets silica-rich fluids under immense heat and pressure. Its warm honey-gold to russet-brown coloring comes from manganese and iron present during formation—the same slow, patient process that teaches stone to hold fire without burning. Primary sources include Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, and Tanzania, regions where earth's deep pressure has been transforming rock into something denser, steadier, more true for millennia.

In Vedic tradition, hessonite is known as Gomed—worn for centuries to balance Rahu's scattered, anxious influence and restore clarity during confusion. Roman signet rings and Bronze Age beads from Sri Lankan mines testify to its enduring role as a stone of protection and centered strength. The tortoise shell appears as its archetype: shielding without isolation, resilient without rigidity.

When hessonite 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 grounding signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe this bowl's tone as warmer, more anchored than clear quartz alone. Working with hessonite invites you to stop performing groundedness and actually experience it—to let your edges be porous enough to release what's stale without losing your center.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 1046 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C note carries the energetic quality of foundation, stability, and primal belonging—the frequency that says you have a right to be here. This particular C lives in the fifth octave, vibrating through your upper body, head, throat, and crown space.

Here's the interesting paradox: a root-chakra note expressed in the upper body and head creates grounding that rises rather than sinks. When hessonite's patient, earth-born steadiness meets this high-octave root frequency, the experience is foundation meeting awareness—like bringing the wisdom of your feet into the space behind your eyes. People notice a settling quality that doesn't make them heavy, but rather helps scattered thoughts find their center.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 1046 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays C+0, a perfect concert pitch C. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C+31.

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 with other musicians, want your bowl to blend with recorded music, or simply appreciate the precision of landing exactly on the note, this compatibility makes integration effortless.

(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 inches, this bowl produces fifth-octave tones with short to medium sustain—meaning the sound speaks clearly, then releases, creating natural space for breath and reflection rather than continuous wash. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice, bedside rituals, desk-side centering before important calls, or close therapeutic work where you want the sound to feel present without overwhelming.

This size allows hessonite's warming, anchoring quality to express with focused potency rather than diffusion. The high-octave resonance naturally targets the upper body and head space, making it particularly effective for bringing grounded awareness into mental activity—useful for anyone who tends to live in their thoughts and wants to feel more embodied while thinking.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice scattered energy—the mind jumping between tasks, the body restless, the nervous system stuck in low-grade alert. It serves the executive preparing for a board meeting, the student facing finals week, the parent who needs three minutes of stillness before the household wakes, the athlete visualizing before competition.

Begin simply: place the bowl on a stable surface or hold it in your palm. Strike or rim the bowl and let the sound arrive. Notice where you feel the vibration—often in the head, throat, or chest with this size and octave. Breathe naturally. You don't need to do anything special; the frequency does its work while you simply receive. Some people place hessonite stones nearby or hold one while playing, amplifying the grounding intention. Others use this bowl to open meetings, transition classrooms between activities, or mark the shift from work-mode to home-mode at the end of a day.

There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. Whether you play it for thirty seconds before a presentation or thirty minutes in deep meditation, the invitation is the same: let your weight settle, let your breath slow, let yourself remember that transformation and stability aren't opposites.

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

You know the feeling when your mind won't stop running—tabs open, tasks stacking, that low hum of what's next before you've finished what's now? This bowl speaks to that. Hessonite's medicine is the kind of grounding that doesn't ask you to stop thinking—it just reminds your thoughts they live in a body. A body with weight. With breath. With a right to be here.

This is a high C—root chakra frequency expressed in the fifth octave, vibrating through your head and throat instead of settling low. Earth wisdom rising to meet awareness. The paradox serves: foundation that doesn't pin you down, but gives scattered energy a place to land. Three minutes with this bowl before the board meeting. Thirty seconds at your desk between calls. The morning ritual before anyone else wakes. However you use it, the invitation is the same: let your edges soften without losing your center.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you've read this far, if something about warm cinnamon light held steady in stone made you pause—trust that. This one might be waiting for you.