Hessonite Garnet Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" G# Note | Grounding Frequencies | #1577

The stone that knows shame by name and offers warmth instead

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: G# | Cents: -45 | Frequency: 404 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Frequencies | Octave: 3 | Bowl #: 1577 ✨ Element: Hessonite Garnet 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Throat/Third Eye transition | Cycle of Fifths: Solar Plexus 💫 🔮 Solfeggio: 396 Hz (Liberation, releasing fear) — Root chakra

This hessonite garnet crystal singing bowl sounds in G# at 404 Hz, resonating with the throat and third eye chakras and the deep body—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Hessonite supports the release of shame and self-limiting beliefs while fostering grounded confidence and creative courage. When this warm, transformative stone meets a frequency in the Grounding range, the result is an instrument that helps you feel both rooted and ready to be seen.

BEST FOR

• Sound baths focused on sacral and solar plexus clearing
• Individuals navigating career transitions or creative blocks
• Athletes and performers building pre-event confidence rituals
• Parents supporting children through self-doubt or shyness
• Fertility and hormonal wellness support sessions
• Anyone rebuilding self-worth after loss or betrayal
• Morning rituals that anchor courage for the day ahead

ESSENCE

I am the stone that knows what it means to be called lesser and still burn with quiet fire. When shame has wrapped itself around your belly, when you've made yourself small to fit spaces that were never meant for you, I generate a slow warmth that asks: What would you do if you weren't afraid of being seen? This bowl holds my honey-gold essence within quartz walls, sounding at a frequency that settles into your foundation—an invitation to reclaim the space you've always deserved.

THE ELEMENT

Hessonite garnet is a variety of grossular garnet, a calcium aluminum silicate that crystallizes in the cubic system with a hardness of 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale. Its distinctive warm coloration—ranging from honey-gold to deep cinnamon—sets it apart from other garnets and gives it the traditional name "cinnamon stone." The name hessonite derives from the Greek word hesson, meaning "weaker," a reference to its slightly softer nature compared to other garnet varieties. This apparent limitation becomes its teaching: true strength doesn't always mean being the hardest.

For over three thousand years, hessonite has held significance across healing traditions. Ayurvedic practitioners prescribed it as "Gomed" for balancing energies and supporting hormonal health. Vedic astrologers associated it with Rahu, recommending it for prosperity, protection, and overcoming obstacles. In contemporary wellness practice, hessonite is valued for its work in the territory between the sacral and solar plexus chakras—that vulnerable space where creativity meets willpower, where desire meets the courage to act.

What makes hessonite particularly relevant to sound healing is its piezoelectric property: the capacity to generate electrical charge when subjected to pressure or vibration. Divine Bowls' proprietary process integrates hessonite at the molecular level during formation, creating a microstructure within the quartz that responds to vibration with its own subtle charge. People who work with this bowl often report a warming sensation in the lower belly, a steadying presence that supports emotional resilience without forcing anything open.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in G# at 404 Hz, resonating with the throat and third eye chakra transition in the Western diatonic system. The G# frequency carries the energetic quality of higher expression and etheric communication, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, sitting bones, and foundational connection to earth. This frequency also falls within the 396 Hz Solfeggio range, traditionally associated with liberation and the release of fear.

When hessonite's warm, shame-dissolving energy meets this grounding frequency, something particular happens. The bowl doesn't push you toward expression before you're ready—it settles you first, creating stability in your foundation so that when you do speak, move, or create, you do so from solid ground. People notice a quality of being held while simultaneously being invited forward. The very long sustain of this 10-inch bowl allows the frequency to work slowly, giving your nervous system time to receive rather than react.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 404 Hz, placing it in our Grounding range—its frequency sits below concert pitch, producing a warmer, more organic quality with a gentle settling energy.

Grounding bowls like this one are good for deep relaxation, meditation, and foundational work. Many people find frequencies in this range feel easier on the nervous system, with a quality that settles into the body rather than floating above it. The tone invites you down rather than pulling you up.

This bowl is also in tune with A=432—its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz, often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." If you have instruments tuned to A=432, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them.

(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 10 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with very long sustain—meaning a single strike continues resonating for an extended period, allowing the sound to work slowly and deeply. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces with ease, making it ideal for group sound baths, yoga studios, ceremonial gatherings, or any room where you want the frequency to reach everyone present. At home, it becomes a centerpiece for living room rituals or a grounding anchor in a meditation corner. In professional settings, it commands attention at the start of meetings or workshops. This size allows hessonite's warming, shame-dissolving energy to express with full authority, while the third-octave resonance naturally targets the pelvis, hips, and foundational body—the very places where we hold what we haven't yet had the courage to release.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to feel your own ground before stepping into something that asks for your presence. Before a difficult conversation. Before creating something that matters. When shame has made you small and you're ready to take up space again. Strike it once and let the sound settle into your belly. Notice what loosens. You don't need technique—just willingness to receive.

This bowl works beautifully for morning rituals that set the tone for courage throughout the day, for athletes centering before competition, for parents helping shy children find their voice before school. Teachers use bowls like this to transition classrooms from chaos to focus. Therapists sound them at session's end to help clients integrate. You might play it while journaling about what you're ready to release, or simply let it fill your kitchen while you make breakfast. There's no wrong way. The bowl meets you where you are.

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 99.998% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

Some bowls arrive with lightning. This one arrives with warmth—the slow kind that starts in your belly and reminds you what it feels like to take up space without apology.

Hessonite knows something about being underestimated. Its name means "weaker," and it's spent three thousand years proving that strength isn't always about hardness. This bowl carries that same quiet confidence: grounded enough to hold you, warm enough to soften what shame has made rigid.

You don't need credentials to play it. You don't need to know why you're here. The frequency settles into your foundation—pelvis, hips, the places where we store what we haven't yet had courage to release—and asks nothing except your presence.

It's available. That's all.