Hessonite Garnet Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1178

I am the ember that never burns out

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: +20 | Frequency: 281 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D-44 | Bowl #: 1178 ✨ Element: Hessonite Garnet 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🔥 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral Transition | Cycle of Fifths: N/A 💫

This hessonite garnet crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 281 Hz, resonating with the root-to-sacral transition zone and the torso, chest, and core. Hessonite garnet supports grounded vitality, emotional steadiness, and sustainable energy for those navigating demanding seasons. When this warm earth stone meets the awakening quality of C#, the result is transformation that stays rooted—movement forward without losing your footing.

BEST FOR

• Grounded vitality and sustainable energy for demanding seasons
• Executives and leaders centering before high-stakes decisions
• Athletes building mental resilience for competition and recovery
• Students seeking steady focus during long study sessions
• Those rebuilding after burnout, grief, or extended depletion
• Sound healers supporting clients through slow, patient restoration
• Parents and caregivers needing their own moment of replenishment

ESSENCE

I am the ember that never burns out—warm cinnamon light held in stone. When you've been running on empty, when your fire has burned too low, I don't flood you with intensity. I settle into your center like coals banking for the night, gently stoking what's already there. This bowl holds my patient warmth, asking nothing of you but presence—and offering, in return, the kind of vitality that sustains.

THE ELEMENT

Hessonite garnet is a variety of grossular garnet, a calcium aluminum silicate formed deep in the earth where limestone met intense heat and pressure. Its signature honey-gold to cinnamon-brown coloring comes from traces of iron and manganese—impurities that become beauty, each one a record of the stone's metamorphic journey. With a Mohs hardness of 6.5-7.5 and a resinous luster that seems almost edible, hessonite has been treasured from Sri Lanka to Tanzania, India to Brazil, wherever the earth's processes created conditions for its slow formation.

In Vedic tradition, hessonite (called "gomed") holds a place among the Navaratna—the nine planetary gems worn to balance Rahu's transformative influence. This wasn't a stone for dramatic breakthroughs but for steady protection, for the long work of facing what you'd rather avoid. Ayurvedic practitioners have used it to vitalize prana, supporting digestive and emotional balance with its gentle, grounding warmth. Tibetan monks valued grossular garnets as meditation aids, fostering centeredness amid chaos.

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 weaves into every frequency the bowl produces, creating resonance patterns unique to this instrument. People often describe hessonite bowls as having a "warmer" or "more anchored" quality, as if the sound itself carries the weight of deep earth. When you work with this bowl, you're invited into the kind of vitality that doesn't burn bright and fast, but sustains—day after day, even when the path gets tedious.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 281 Hz, resonating at the transition between root and sacral chakras in the Western diatonic system. C# carries the energetic quality of awakening and emergence—the stirring that happens when something begins to move from stillness into action. This frequency vibrates through your torso, chest cavity, and core, targeting the diaphragm and mid-spine where breath meets stability.

When hessonite's patient, grounding warmth meets C#'s awakening quality, something interesting happens: transformation that doesn't uproot you. The frequency stirs what's been stuck—creative blocks, stagnant energy, the heaviness of prolonged protection—while the mineral keeps you anchored. People often notice a loosening in the hips or lower belly, a sense of warmth spreading through the core, or simply the quiet exhale they've been holding back for months.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 281 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays C#+20 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D-44 cents.)

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that balances beautifully with hessonite's grounding nature—brightness that stays rooted rather than floating away.

(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 Octave 4 tones with long, generous sustain—sound that continues to resonate and develop after you've stopped playing, filling a room with warmth that lingers. The full, rich volume makes it ideal for group settings, yoga studios, classrooms, or open-plan living spaces, while remaining intimate enough for personal morning rituals or bedside use. This size allows hessonite's steady warmth to express with depth and presence, while the Octave 4 resonance naturally targets the torso and core—the body's center of stability and breath.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need sustainable energy rather than a quick fix—when you're rebuilding after depletion, facing a demanding season, or simply tired of running on empty. It's equally suited to the executive preparing for a long day of decisions, the student settling into hours of focused study, the parent stealing three minutes of stillness before the household wakes, or the athlete visualizing steady performance.

Begin simply: place the bowl on a stable surface or hold it in your palm. Strike once and breathe. Notice where the sound lands in your body—many people feel it in the belly or lower ribs. You don't need to do anything special. The bowl creates conditions; you do the work of simply being present. Try playing it before demanding tasks that require endurance, during transitions between intense activities, or at the end of a long day when you need to bank your fire rather than burn out. For teams, a single strike can open a meeting with grounded intention. For families, it can signal the shift from chaos to calm.

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 patient, steady use.

INVITATION

This bowl won't chase you. It doesn't need to. Hessonite garnet has been forming under pressure for longer than humans have had language for patience—it knows how to wait. What it offers is simple: the kind of warmth that sustains rather than dazzles, the ember that keeps burning when flashier fires have gone out. Whether you're rebuilding after a hard season, steadying yourself before a long one, or just tired of running on empty, this is a bowl for the long game. It ships from our Ohio workshop whenever you're ready. No rush. The warmth will keep.