Iolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 7" G Note | A=432 Tuning | #1373

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

🎵 Size: 7" | Note: G | Cents: -9 | Frequency: 383 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: G-9 | Bowl #: 1373

✨ Element: Iolite 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 💬 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Throat | Cycle of Fifths: Solar Plexus 💫

This iolite crystal singing bowl sounds in G at 383 Hz, resonating with the throat chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and mid-spine. Iolite supports intuitive clarity and decision-making during times of uncertainty. When the frequency of expression meets the Viking navigator's stone, the result is a bowl that helps you find your way forward—cutting through mental fog to reveal what you already know.

BEST FOR

• Intuitive clarity and decision-making support
• Students preparing for exams or navigating academic crossroads
• Executives and leaders centering before strategic decisions
• Sound healers supporting clients through life transitions
• Writers and creatives breaking through mental blocks
• Anyone standing at a crossroads—career, relationship, or life direction
• Morning ritual for those who tend to overthink

ESSENCE

I am the stone that taught Vikings to find the sun through fog. When you've been circling the same question for weeks, when every path forward looks equally unclear, I don't add more voices to the noise. I settle them. This bowl holds the navigator's clarity—not dramatic revelation, but the quiet moment when you remember something you've always known.

THE ELEMENT

Iolite is the gem-quality variety of cordierite, a magnesium iron aluminum silicate that forms in metamorphic rocks under intense pressure and heat. Its most striking characteristic is pleochroism—the ability to display different colors depending on the angle of view. Turn an iolite crystal in your hand and watch it shift from deep violet-blue to pale gold to nearly colorless. This isn't magic; it's physics. And it's why Vikings sliced thin pieces of this stone to locate the sun on overcast days, polarizing light to navigate across the North Atlantic when the horizon offered no guidance.

The stone's historical role as a navigation tool carries forward into its contemporary use. Where Vikings sought the sun through clouds, modern practitioners and individuals reach for iolite when seeking clarity through mental fog—when too many options create paralysis, when fear masquerades as intuition, when the path forward feels obscured. Iolite doesn't generate answers. It creates conditions for your own inner compass to steady.

When iolite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the formation level—not as a surface coating, but as part of what vibrates. The stone's clarifying signature becomes woven into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe this bowl's tone as having a "cutting" quality—not harsh, but precise, like light breaking through.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in G at 383 Hz, resonating with the throat chakra in the Western diatonic system. The G frequency carries the energetic quality of expression, communication, and truth—vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, and mid-spine. This is the body zone where you hold your breath when you're afraid to speak, where tension gathers when words stay stuck.

When iolite's clarifying presence meets the throat chakra's frequency of expression, something specific happens: clarity finds voice. The stone helps you see through confusion; the frequency helps you articulate what you find. People working with this bowl often report that insights don't just arrive—they become speakable. The thing you couldn't quite name suddenly has words.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 383 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays G-9 cents. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is G-40 cents.)

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 technical specifications include an A=432 Equivalent field showing how this bowl is labeled in that reference system—helpful for musicians integrating bowls into their existing setup.

(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 7 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with medium sustain—long enough to settle into, short enough to layer or use in transitions. The room-filling but balanced volume makes it versatile: equally at home on a bedside table for morning clarity practice, in a therapist's office between sessions, on a teacher's desk for classroom transitions, or in a conference room before strategic planning meetings. This size allows iolite's precise, clarifying quality to express without overwhelming—present but not pushy. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the torso and chest, grounding insight in the body rather than leaving it floating in the mind.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're standing at a decision point and can't see clearly—when you've asked everyone else's opinion and still feel lost, when you're overthinking something that requires sensing, when fear and intuition sound too similar to distinguish. This isn't a bowl for dramatic breakthroughs. It's for the quiet work of discernment.

Begin simply: strike the bowl once and let the tone fill your space. Notice where the sound lands in your body—many people feel it first in the chest or throat. As the sustain fades, ask yourself what you already know about your situation. Not what you should do, not what others expect—what you know. The bowl creates conditions for that knowing to surface. Teachers might play it before guiding students through a challenging problem. Athletes might use it during visualization, clarifying the path to their goal. Parents might sound it when helping a child work through a difficult choice. The application matters less than the intention: I'm ready to see clearly.

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

Iolite doesn't chase. It waits—the way the sun waits behind clouds, already there, already shining, whether or not you've found a way to see it. This bowl carries that same patience: the navigator's clarity, available whenever you're ready to stop circling and start choosing.

Some bowls energize. Some bowls soften. This one cuts through—not harshly, but precisely, the way morning light finds the gap in curtains. It's for the overthinking that masquerades as preparation. For the crossroads you've been standing at longer than you'd like to admit. For the moment you're finally willing to trust what you already know.