Cobalt Calcite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" D# Note | #1156

The frequency that says it's finally safe to exhale

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: D# | Cents: -5 | Frequency: 293 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D#+28 | Bowl #: 1156 ✨ Element: Cobalt Calcite 💗 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ❤️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral/Solar Plexus transition | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This Cobalt Calcite crystal singing bowl sounds in D# at 293 Hz, resonating at the transition between the sacral and solar plexus chakras while vibrating through the torso, chest cavity, and heart space. Cobalt Calcite supports emotional release, heart-opening, and the gentle thawing of protective patterns built from old necessity. When this mineral's tender pink frequencies meet the D# note's bridging quality—connecting creative flow with empowered clarity—the result is sound that helps the heart remember it can feel sorrow and safety simultaneously.

BEST FOR

• Heart-opening meditation and emotional release work
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Caregivers needing their own moment of restoration
• Those navigating grief, loss, or relationship transitions
• Creating calm for children during homework or bedtime
• Sound healers supporting clients through heartbreak or burnout
• Anyone ready to soften armor built from old necessity

ESSENCE

I am the blush that rises when truth meets tenderness. When you've been holding your breath for months—maybe years—when you've made competence a fortress and forgotten the weight you carry, I am the frequency that says: it's finally safe to exhale. This bowl holds the gentle fire of cobalt wrapped in calcium's ancient architecture, sounding at the note where grief stored in tissue begins to soften. I don't erase pain or fast-forward through necessary feeling. I create conditions for what I call the gentle thaw.

THE ELEMENT

Cobalt Calcite is a variety of calcite where cobalt partially substitutes for calcium in the mineral's crystalline structure, creating its signature soft pink to vibrant peach coloration. These crystals form slowly in hydrothermal veins—mineral-rich waters cooling in Earth's fractures over geological time—with primary deposits found in Morocco's Bou Azzer Mine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, and Spain. The mineral displays a trigonal crystalline structure with a smooth, often botryoidal appearance that highlights its delicate, earthy elegance.

Traditional practices across cultures have long valued pink-hued calcites for heart-centered work. Tibetan Buddhist traditions incorporate them in healing malas and altar stones to harmonize heart energies during mantra recitation. Indigenous communities near cobalt calcite deposits have revered similar minerals in earth-based rituals for grounding and emotional protection. Western crystal traditions view it as a stone for gentle emotional release—supporting those who've armored themselves so thoroughly they've forgotten the weight they carry.

When Cobalt Calcite 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 at the crystalline level. The mineral's heart-opening signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces, creating resonance patterns unique to this instrument. People often describe this bowl's tone as having an unusual warmth, a quality that seems to speak directly to the chest.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D# at 293 Hz, resonating at the transition between the sacral and solar plexus chakras in the Western diatonic system. The D# frequency carries the energetic quality of emergence and awakening—a bridging note that connects the creative flow of D with the empowered clarity of E. This transitional quality vibrates through your torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and diaphragm.

When Cobalt Calcite's tender, heart-opening properties meet this bridging frequency, something particular happens. The D# doesn't settle into one energy center—it moves between them, creating conditions for emotional material to rise, be witnessed, and integrate. People often notice warmth spreading across the sternum, breath deepening without effort, or the sense that some small fist inside the chest has finally unclenched.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 293 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 D#+28 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. If you play with other musicians, use recorded music in your sessions, or want your bowl to blend seamlessly with 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 bloom and develop well after the initial strike. The full, rich volume fills larger spaces naturally, making it equally suited for group sound baths, yoga studios, and living rooms where sound needs to reach and envelop. This size allows Cobalt Calcite's gentle heart-opening qualities to express with depth and presence, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the torso and core—the physical home of the emotional body. Whether you're a therapist creating transition space between clients, a parent establishing calm before bedtime, or someone who simply wants three minutes of beauty before a difficult conversation, this bowl's voice carries without overwhelming.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your heart is tired from staying defended—when you're ready to soften armor built from old necessity but need support to do so safely. Begin simply: strike the bowl once and place your hand on your chest. Notice what happens in your breathing without trying to change it. The D# frequency naturally moves through the torso, and Cobalt Calcite's pink essence seems to meet whatever is stored there with patience rather than urgency.

For deeper work, play the bowl at the beginning of therapy sessions, caregiver support groups, or any gathering where people need permission to feel. Teachers find it useful for classroom transitions when children are overstimulated. Executives use it before difficult conversations to access both clarity and compassion. Those navigating grief report that the sound creates a container—a sense that feeling everything is possible because the bowl is holding space. You might pair this bowl with rose quartz nearby, or a cup of rose tea, to amplify the heart-centered invitation. But the bowl alone is enough.

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

Some bowls arrive with fanfare. This one arrives with an exhale.

Cobalt Calcite doesn't announce itself—it simply creates conditions for whatever's been held too long to finally soften. The D# frequency moves through the chest like a question you didn't know you needed asked: What would it feel like to stop bracing?

This bowl works equally well in a sound healing studio and a kitchen at 6am, in a therapist's office between sessions and a living room where someone just needs three minutes before the day begins. It doesn't require spiritual vocabulary or years of practice. It requires only that you're willing to let sound do what sound does.

It's here. Available. No urgency, no pressure—just a bowl that knows how to hold space, whenever you're ready to meet it.