Pyrite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 8" C Note | A=432 Tuning | #1780

The spark that teaches you to stop chasing gold

🎵 Size: 8" | Note: C | Cents: -15 | Frequency: 256 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C+0 | Bowl #: 1780

✨ Element: Pyrite 🪨 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🔥 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This pyrite crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 256 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and the core of the body—torso, chest cavity, and mid-spine. Pyrite supports grounded confidence, mental clarity, and the steady building of authentic personal power. When the foundational C note meets iron sulfide's ancient stability, the result is sound that anchors intention into action, helping scattered energy find solid ground.

BEST FOR

• Grounding scattered energy and building focused confidence
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or overwhelm
• Teachers creating calm, focused transitions in classroom settings
• Morning intention-setting before demanding workdays
• Students preparing for exams or sustained concentration
• Athletes and coaches establishing pre-competition mental clarity
• Entrepreneurs and business owners setting goals with grounded vision
• Creating stable, productive energy in home office spaces

ESSENCE

I am the spark hidden in stone, the fire that sleeps in iron's heart. They call me fool's gold, but there's wisdom in that name—I teach you to look closer, to trust what's solid beneath the glitter. When you've been chasing, striving, spinning in circles of effort without traction, I am the low hum that says: build from here. This bowl holds my brass-yellow geometry fused with quartz, sounding at the frequency of foundation—an invitation to stand on your own ground.

THE ELEMENT

Pyrite is iron disulfide (FeS₂), a mineral that forms cubic crystals with a distinctive brass-yellow metallic luster. Its name comes from the Greek word for fire—ancient peoples struck pyrite against flint to create the sparks that started their hearths. This is a stone born in pressure: formed over billions of years in oxygen-deprived environments, shaped by bacterial processes in deep sediments and hydrothermal veins. The oldest pyrite crystals date back 2.9 billion years, making this one of Earth's most ancient mineral witnesses.

Throughout human history, pyrite has served as both practical tool and symbolic teacher. Mesoamerican cultures polished it into ceremonial mirrors for divination. Andean miners carried it as a guardian stone. European alchemists saw in its golden face the promise of transformation—base metal becoming something precious through patient work. The irony of "fool's gold" carries its own teaching: discernment matters, and true value often lies beneath surface appearances.

When pyrite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the formation stage—not as a coating, but as part of what vibrates. The iron-sulfur geometry becomes woven into the quartz itself, creating resonance patterns unique to this combination. People often describe pyrite-infused bowls as having a "heavier" or more anchored tone, a quality that supports the mineral's traditional associations with grounding, protection, and steady willpower.

Working with pyrite invites you to examine what you're building and why. It supports the patient, unglamorous work of creating something real—whether that's a business, a creative project, a new habit, or simply a more grounded relationship with yourself.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 256 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C note carries the energetic quality of foundation, grounding, and root connection—the base upon which everything else is built. This frequency vibrates through your core: torso, chest cavity, solar plexus, and mid-spine.

When pyrite's stabilizing presence meets the foundational C note, the combination creates sound that feels like bedrock beneath your feet. The root chakra governs your sense of safety, belonging, and right to exist. People working with this frequency often report feeling more settled in their bodies, more present, more capable of taking action from a place of calm rather than anxiety.

THE TUNING

This bowl is tuned to A=432, often called natural tuning. At -15 cents from concert pitch, it creates mathematical harmony with organic patterns found throughout nature. Many people experience 432 Hz tuning as warmer and more grounding than standard concert pitch—a quality that complements pyrite's earth-anchoring properties. This tuning resonates with the body's natural rhythms, making it particularly suited for those seeking sound that feels organic and embodied rather than bright or activating.

THE SIZE

At 8 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with medium-long sustain—enough time to breathe into the sound and let it settle through your body. The full, projecting volume fills small to medium spaces without overwhelming them, making it versatile for personal morning rituals, classroom use, therapy rooms, small group sessions, or office environments. This size allows pyrite's grounded stability to express with clarity and presence, while the mid-range octave naturally targets the core of the body where so much tension accumulates. Portable enough to move between spaces, substantial enough to anchor a room.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to come back to center. When your mind is scattered across too many tabs, when anxiety has you spinning, when you're about to begin something that requires steady focus—a presentation, a difficult conversation, a creative project, a test. Play it at the start of your workday to establish intention. Use it to transition a classroom from chaos to concentration. Begin team meetings with a single strike to gather collective attention.

To play, place the bowl on its O-ring on a stable surface, or hold it in your palm if you prefer to feel the vibration directly. Strike the rim with the mallet and let the tone expand. Notice where the sound lands in your body—many people feel C-note bowls in their belly, their lower back, the soles of their feet. Breathe slowly. You might place one hand on your abdomen as you listen, grounding your attention in your physical center. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. The frequency does its work whether you're meditating deeply or simply letting sound fill the room while you prepare for what's next.

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 any surface. 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

I am the stone that taught your ancestors how to make fire. For 2.9 billion years, I've been building my cubic architecture in the dark—iron meeting sulfur in places where oxygen doesn't reach, pressure doing its patient work molecule by molecule. They call me fool's gold, and I wear that name with pride. It means I've been teaching discernment since before humans had words for it.

You've read this far because something in you recognizes what I offer: not the flashy promise, but the solid ground beneath it. Not the shortcut, but the foundation that actually holds. I don't care if you've never touched a singing bowl before or if you've been working with sound for twenty years. I care that you're tired of performing and ready to build something real. I care that the gap between who you are and who you're pretending to be has grown too wide, too exhausting.

This bowl sounds at 256 Hz—the frequency of bedrock, of coming home to your own center. When you strike it before that difficult conversation, that presentation, that moment when you need to speak your truth, I don't make you fearless. I make you grounded. There's a difference. One bypasses the work. The other gives you something to stand on while you do it.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you're still here, reading these words, feeling that quiet pull—trust that. Your body already knows what it needs.