Iolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" D# Note | #1130

I am the stone that taught sailors to find the sun through fog

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: D# | Cents: -5 | Frequency: 620 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C#+27 | Bowl #: 1130 ✨ Element: Iolite 💎 | Body Resonance: Head, throat, sinuses, skull, cervical spine, brain cavity, upper energetic field 👁️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral/Solar Plexus transition 💫

This iolite crystal singing bowl sounds in D# at 620 Hz, resonating at the transition between the sacral and solar plexus chakras while vibrating through the head, throat, and upper energetic field. Iolite supports inner navigation, mental clarity, and the restoration of perspective during times of confusion or transition. When the navigator's stone meets this breath-and-release frequency, the result is an instrument that helps clear mental static so you can hear your own inner compass again.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and decision-making support during life transitions
• Executives and leaders centering before high-stakes decisions
• Students seeking focus and perspective during exams or major projects
• Third-eye meditation and intuitive development practices
• Those navigating career crossroads, relationship changes, or spiritual reorientation
• Writers and creatives breaking through overthinking and mental blocks
• Sound healers supporting clients through confusion or decision fatigue

ESSENCE

I am the stone that taught sailors to find the sun through fog—not by forcing brightness, but by revealing what was already there. When you've been staring at the same tangled corner of a problem until your eyes blur, I am the cool invitation to step back, breathe, and look from a different angle. This bowl carries my twilight-blue wisdom into sound, a frequency that says: you already know the way. Let me help you remember how to see it.

THE ELEMENT

Iolite is the gem-quality variety of cordierite, a magnesium iron aluminum cyclosilicate that crystallizes in the orthorhombic system. With a hardness of 7-7.5 on the Mohs scale—similar to quartz itself—iolite is a durable, substantial stone. Its most remarkable physical property is strong pleochroism: depending on the viewing angle, iolite shifts between violet-blue, gray, yellow, and nearly colorless, showing different faces of the same truth. Major deposits are found across India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Madagascar, Tanzania, and the United States.

This optical sophistication earned iolite its place in history. Viking navigators of the 8th-11th centuries reportedly used thin, polished slices of iolite as "sunstones"—natural polarizing filters that could locate the sun's position through overcast skies. The stone that guided ships across the North Atlantic now guides inner journeys, helping those who feel lost find their bearings again.

In contemporary wellness traditions, iolite is regarded as a stone of inner vision and mental recalibration. It's associated with the third eye chakra and valued by those facing decision fatigue, life transitions, or the particular fog that descends when you've been overthinking the same question for too long. When iolite 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 navigator's signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces, which is why people often describe this bowl's tone as having unusual clarity and a quality of "cutting through."

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D# at 620 Hz, placing it at the transition between the sacral and solar plexus chakras in the Western diatonic system. This is liminal territory—the energetic space where creative flow meets personal will, where intuition begins to translate into action. The frequency carries the energetic quality of breath, release, and transformation, vibrating primarily through the head, throat, sinuses, and upper energetic field.

When iolite's gift for restoring perspective meets this transitional frequency, something interesting happens. The bowl doesn't push you toward answers—it creates the mental spaciousness to recognize the answers you've been carrying all along. People often report a sense of their thoughts settling, like sediment in water finally coming to rest so they can see clearly to the bottom.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 620 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays D#-5 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C#+27 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. For musicians, teachers incorporating music into their work, or anyone who wants their bowl to blend seamlessly with recorded music or other instruments, 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 9 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with long, sustained resonance—sound that continues to unfold and develop well after the initial strike. The full, rich volume fills larger spaces naturally, making it equally suited for group settings, spacious living rooms, classrooms, or professional treatment rooms. This size allows iolite's contemplative quality to express with depth and presence rather than fleeting quickly. The sustained tone gives you time to settle into the experience, to let the mental static quiet, to actually arrive in the moment rather than chasing the sound as it fades.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're caught in loops—the same decision circling, the same worry returning, the same question you've asked yourself a hundred times without resolution. It's equally valuable at the beginning of focused work sessions, before important conversations, or any moment when you need to step back from the details and see the whole picture.

To begin, simply strike the bowl once and let the sound unfold completely before striking again. Notice where your attention goes as the tone sustains. You might place the bowl on a table in front of you during morning planning, let it ring while you transition between tasks, or use it to mark the shift from work-mind to home-mind at the end of your day. Teachers find it useful for helping students settle before tests or creative projects. Team leaders use it to open meetings that require clear thinking. Parents discover it helps children (and themselves) step back from homework frustration. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl—the invitation is simply to pause, listen, and notice what becomes clearer when you stop trying to force the answer.

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

The thing about iolite is this: it doesn't care how you got here.

Maybe you're a sound healer building your collection. Maybe you're a teacher who needs something to settle thirty restless minds before a test. Maybe you're the person who's been staring at the same decision for three weeks and you just need the mental static to stop. Maybe you lead a team and you're tired of meetings that start scattered. Maybe you've never owned a singing bowl and you don't know why this one keeps pulling you back to the page.

Iolite doesn't need your credentials. It needs your willingness to step back, breathe, and look from a different angle.

This bowl—620 Hz, D#, the frequency that lives between creative flow and personal will—doesn't force answers. It creates the conditions for you to recognize the ones you've been carrying all along. The navigator's stone meeting the breath-and-release frequency. Mental spaciousness. The kind of clarity that feels like finally seeing the whole map instead of the corner you've been stuck in.

If you're still here, you already know something. Trust that.