Cobalt Calcite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6" D Note | A=432 Tuning | #967

I don't crack you open. I melt.

🎵 Size: 6" | Note: D | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 1154 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 5 | A=432 Equivalent: D+0 | Bowl #: 967 ✨ Element: Cobalt Calcite 💎 | Body Resonance: Head, throat, sinuses, skull, cervical spine, brain cavity, upper energetic field 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This cobalt calcite crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 1154 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the upper body—head, throat, and crown. Cobalt calcite supports emotional softening, heart-centered compassion, and the gentle dissolution of old resentments. When this mineral's tender, melting quality meets the creative flow of D frequency, the experience becomes an invitation to feel without forcing—to let the heart open at its own pace.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and heart-opening meditation
• Caregivers and helpers needing their own moment of restoration
• Those navigating grief, relationship transitions, or self-forgiveness
• Therapists and counselors resetting between sessions
• Parents creating calm for anxious children at bedtime
• Writers and creatives softening through blocks with gentleness
• Anyone practicing self-compassion or learning to receive care

ESSENCE

I am the soft exhale after years of holding your breath. When you've forgotten how to receive—when giving has become armor and tenderness feels like risk—I don't crack you open. I melt. That's the word people use most: melting. The ice around old resentments, the calcification around "I'm not enough," the rigid places that formed when someone first taught you that your heart was too much or not enough or the wrong shape entirely. I am cobalt calcite, and I am the permission you've been waiting for, written in mineral form.

THE ELEMENT

Cobalt calcite—also called cobaltoan calcite or the "Aphrodite Stone"—is a variety of calcium carbonate where cobalt partially replaces calcium in the crystal lattice, creating its distinctive pink to magenta blush. This mineral forms in hydrothermal veins, primarily in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco, and the historic Calamita mine in Tuscany, where it was first documented by European mineralogists. With a Mohs hardness of only 3 and perfect cleavage in three directions, cobalt calcite embodies a fundamental truth: softness is not weakness.

Ancient Egyptians placed pink calcite varieties in tombs as heart-protecting amulets. Tibetan Buddhist practitioners have long incorporated these stones in metta (loving-kindness) meditations, while Bantu communities near Congo's Katanga mines honor cobalt-touched minerals in healing rituals for emotional balance. Across traditions, this stone appears wherever humans seek to soften what has hardened.

When cobalt calcite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the deepest level—not as a surface coating, but as part of what vibrates. The mineral's gentle signature becomes woven into every frequency the bowl produces, creating resonance patterns unique to this infusion. When you work with this bowl, you're not just hearing sound through a vessel—you're experiencing cobalt calcite's essence amplified through pure quartz, creating conditions for the heart to remember its natural state: open, resilient, capable of holding complexity.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 1154 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries the energetic quality of creative flow and emotional expression, vibrating through your head, throat, and upper energetic field. This octave 5 tone has an intimate, clarifying quality—bright enough to illuminate, gentle enough not to overwhelm.

When cobalt calcite's heart-softening properties meet this creative, flowing frequency, something particular happens. People often describe feeling permission to move emotion through the body rather than storing it. The combination supports the kind of release that doesn't require drama—just steady, patient allowing. The high octave brings clarity to emotional processing, while the mineral's gentle nature ensures the experience remains nurturing rather than confrontational.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 1154 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays D+0—a true tone D, meaning it lands at the exact mathematical frequency for this note in the A=432 system. This is a rare and special alignment. Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is D-30.

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 true tone status means this bowl sits in perfect mathematical relationship with the A=432 standard—no sharp, no flat, just pure D.

(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 octave 5 tones with short to medium sustain—meaning each strike offers a clear, defined voice that invites repeated playing rather than extended drone. The intimate volume makes it ideal for personal practice, bedside rituals, close therapeutic work, or any space where you want sound to feel like a private conversation rather than a public announcement. This size travels well, moving easily from bedroom to office to therapy room.

The compact form allows cobalt calcite's tender quality to express with focused precision—concentrated rather than diffused. The octave 5 resonance naturally targets the upper body and head, creating a clarifying effect that many describe as thoughts settling like snow in a shaken globe.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice yourself armoring. When you've been giving so much that receiving feels foreign. When grief has become intellectual rather than felt. When you're ready to soften but don't know how. You don't need training or technique—just willingness.

Begin simply: place the bowl before you, take three slow breaths, and let the mallet circle the rim. As the tone builds, notice where your body holds tension. You might place your free hand on your heart or chest. Let the sound do what it does—you don't need to force anything. This bowl works particularly well at transitions: between waking and rising, between work and home, between giving care and receiving it. Parents find it helpful for creating calm before bedtime stories. Therapists use it to clear the room between clients. Writers play it when the page feels adversarial rather than inviting. Caregivers—those who spend their days holding space for others—find it offers the restoration they rarely allow themselves.

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

This bowl carries cobalt calcite's particular gift: the slow melt. Not the dramatic breakthrough, but the gradual softening of whatever calcified when you learned to armor up. The pink of forgiveness earned over time, not demanded all at once.

It sounds in D—a true tone in the A=432 system, which means it sits in exact mathematical harmony with that warmer tuning standard. The frequency moves through head and throat, clarifying without confronting. At 6 inches, it's sized for close work: the bedside, the desk, the space between clients, the kitchen before anyone else wakes.

Cobalt calcite doesn't rush. Neither does this bowl. It's here if that's what you need—something that meets hardness with patience, that offers permission rather than prescription.