Time Travel

"Destiny always gets its own way. It's not as easy to change the past as you think. If you do it incorrectly, everything will change. The evil you vanquished, the good that you've done, none of it may've ever happened."

- Penny Halliwell on time travel.

Time travel is moving through time and space into the past or the future. Time Travel has been used many times during the series. The first time the Sisters used time travel was when Prue, Piper, and Phoebe went into the past to the 70's and saved themselves from the warlock Nicholas, who had manipulated their mother, Patty into blessing a ring that would make the wearer immune to the sisters powers. Another notable experience was when Chris went to the past to save his brother Wyatt from turning evil, which was the main story arc for all of season six.

Traveling to the Past
It has been stated several times during the early seasons that if you travel to the past you will not have your powers. Both times the sisters went to the past (That 70's Episode and All Hallows Eve), they have not had their powers. It was stated that if there were two sets of the same person in one time, such as a witch from the present and future, that the powers will stay in the present person's body. It also states that if you are not born yet, your powers don't technically exist. Yet, this is contradicted when Chris and Bianca come back from the future, they retained their powers. It's unlikely they used a potion or some other type of magic to keep their powers, since Chris came back from the future the second time in Chris Crossed, one can see he only says the spell, then goes through the portal. Although it is possible that the spell itself makes the traveller keep their powers.



The way you travel into the past dictates whether you will be in your past self's body or in your present self's. When The Sisters, Chris, and Bianca went to the past with a spell, they stayed in their present self's body. And when Piper and Leo went to the past in Forever Charmed with Coop's ring, they also remained in their present self's body. Yet when Clyde sent Paige and Leo went back to 1994, Paige was in her 17 year-old body, although that was because Paige had to see how her parents died, and Leo was made a type of spirit guide that was invisible to everyone excluding Paige.

When two sets of the same magical being (such as a witch from the past and the future) are living in the same time period only one of them can have & use their powers and this is the one from the past. If one goes back to see oneself as a child, only the child will have powers. If one travels back before one's conception then the traveller will not have any powers. The direction of time travel also will affect how one exists in that period. For example, if one travels to the past then one will exist separate from their past self and the two sets of "selves" will have separate bodies. But, when one travels to the future they will possess their future living body. It is unknown what happens if one is dead in the future, presumably they would travel to another reality where they do exist. This could be a possible explanation for why Prue was able to travel into the future and possess her future body, living the life she would have lead even though in the real future she dies.

Traveling to the Future
Traveling to the future has been depicted in the show as the person being in the future in their present body (Forever Charmed) and possessing their future self's body (Morality Bites). When possessing their future self's body, they have complete control of any and all future powers their future counterpart has. Because the being is in the future, it is very likely that they will have highly advanced forms of their current power or even powers they don't know about yet. For example, a person traveling from the past with the power of Telekinesis might find themselves with the power with Advanced Telekinesis and/or Astral Projection as Prue did when she went to the future.

It is unknown what happens if one is dead in the future, presumably they would travel to another reality where they do exist. This could be a possible explanation for why Prue was able to travel into the future and possess her future body, living the life she sould have lead if she wouldn't have died.

Users

 * Cupids (through ring)
 * Avatars
 * Gods
 * Cole Turner (Through Potion and Spell)
 * Angel of Destiny
 * Billie Jenkins (Through her power of Projection)
 * Baccara (through spell or potion)
 * Clyde (through time portal)

Through Spell

 * Witches
 * Demons
 * Warlocks

Time Traveling Over The Years
Over the eight year run of Charmed, Time Traveling has been used frequently, Here are some of them