Premonition



The magical power of premonition ((a.k.a. Foresight, Precognition, Retrocognition, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Prescience etc) is the ability to see the past, present and the future in various ways. This is Phoebe Halliwell's first power from season one onward ("Something Wicca This Way Comes"). She later loses her personal powers, including her premonitions, for abusing them. However, she goes on to earn her premonition power back ("Styx Feet Under").

Premonition is a passive power, and Phoebe was initially frustrated that she didn't get an active power, as Prue and Piper did. However, it is actually highly coveted. Victor once told Phoebe that premonition was one of the more desirable powers. Also, Melinda Warren once told Phoebe that premonitions help good witches see how to protect and heal.

Initially, Phoebe was only able to see the future, but in The Witch Is Back her power grows to seeing the past aswell.

Recieving Premonitions
In order to receive a premonition, Phoebe had to make contact with an object that was somehow related to the situation or person her vision was about. Several times, Phoebe has received a vision without touching anything, one example being when the Seer sent her a vision of Paige's demise ("Womb Raider"), and another when entering the demon Vinceres' apartment, where the excessive psychic energies residing in the Apartment because of Vinceres' possession of the power of Empathy allowed Phoebe to receive a premonition ("Primrose Empath").

The demonic Seer Kyra once said that she had to touch objects also, when she was starting in the craft, to have visions. At the time that she made this statement, it was seen that Kyra didn't have to touch objects and could seemingly remain lucid in the present while receiving a vision. This heavily implies that Phoebe will also be able to receive visions at will and remain lucid and many other things that Kyra could do if her powers continue to advance.

Calling For Premonitions
Phoebe can also call for visions if she really concentrates for example in "The Power of Two" when she call for a vision when touching Piper's plane ticket, allowing her to see that Piper was going to miss her plane if they weren't quick enough.

Sharing Visions
It is also possible to transfer a premonition to another person, if the person who had it first remembers it and the person on the receiving end also possesses this power or divination. Examples of this would be:


 * Rex Buckland to Phoebe (He planted a premonition on Phoebe by his Astral Projection power)
 * The Seer to Phoebe
 * Kyra to Phoebe
 * Phoebe to Ronny (after Zankou interrupted a power switching spell)
 * Phoebe to Odin
 * Phoebe to Bo Lightfeather
 * Phoebe to Madame Teresa

Enhanced Intuition
As a bi-product of of Phoebe's premonitions, she can sense or predict attacks. When Ronnie swiched powers with Phoebe, she told Ronnie that if he concentrated, he should be able to sense the next energy ball from Zankou, which he does succesfully. Another time Phoebe did this was when she was deaf and could sense a Kazi demon behind her and levitated away. Kyra was also able to sense attacks. Phoebe is particularly skilled at anticipating her adversary's next attack during physical combat, even by surprise. For example, she was able to to successfully kill a demon and physically subdue the other demon, Lantos, in a small elevator from an attack from behind. Lantos later commented to the demon Imara that he was lucky to have escaped Phoebe as her intuitive powers are highly skilled. Phoebe could fight using highly complex, martial combat after only a few years of being a witch, something that would take demons and other witches several years to master.

Personal Gain


Throughout the course of the series Phoebe used this gift once for personal gain when she created potions to take to amplify her powers so she could look more into the future to see who she'd marry and have kids with. Phoebe eventually realizes she can't rush life and stops, but she is punished for her "crimes" by being stripped of her powers. She also uses her powers in a selfless way by being a psychic, so she could earn enough money to buy Prue a present for her birthday. But ultimately it serves a greater purpose allowing her to foresee and prevent a man from being hit by a car. And it is at the job where Piper shows up and meets an innocent, Mark Chao who they are to protect from Yama (Dead Man Dating). Also, she used her power of premonition to see the winning lottery numbers, but the numbers were magically erased before she had the opportunity to get the money due to the personal gain clause in the Wiccan Rede.

Electro-Mental Ignitions


Seen in the alternate 2009 world of Morality Bites, Phoebe's power of Premonition evolved into Electro-Mental ignition allowing her to incinerate and burn the mind of a victim, Cal Greene; during this time we see her use Levitation as well, causing both her and Cal to levitate while she is killing him.


 * Note: Many Charmed fans speculate that this power is an aspect of latent premonition, it probably being an ability to continually flash the worst moments of someone's life right before their eyes, forcing them to relive those moments until the horror knocks them unconscious or, if wished by the user, to even kill them.

Astral Premonition
Also called "Astral Echo" this is the ability to project one's astral body into another time-frame, like a cross between Astral Projection and Premonition. She had a premontion that turned into an Astral Echo where she was shot with Orin's beams in the premonition and then in reality when out of the Echo, experienced the same wounds.

Phoebe first manifested this power when she overcame the problems that caused her to neglect her powers for months, and with the added contact of Gypsy Magic, she experienced a premonition of their death while projecting into her future self's body.

We see Phoebe display this ability again in Sand Francisco Dreamin', in which she saw a Sandman being killed. This was one of the rare occasions in which Phoebe had a premonition in her sleep; probably the reason she astral echoed so easily at the time.

In Hulkus Pocus she manifested it again and pays a visit to her future self where she learns to believe in her abilities again, and also that she will have a child in the future. This is the last episode in which Phoebe gets a premonition in the series.

Enhanced Intuition
As a bi-product of of Phoebe's premonitions, she can sense or predict attacks. When Ronnie swiched powers with Phoebe, she told Ronnie that if he concentrated, he should be able to sense the next energy ball from Zankou, which he does succesfully. Another time Phoebe did this was when she was deaf and could sense a Kazi demon behind her and levitated away. Kyra was also able to sense attacks. Phoebe is particularly skilled at anticipating her adversary's next attack during physical combat, even by surprise. For example, she was able to to successfully kill a demon and physically subdue the other demon, Lantos, in a small elevator from an attack from behind. Lantos later commented to the demon Imara that he was lucky to have escaped Phoebe as her intuitive powers are highly skilled. Phoebe could fight using highly complex, martial combat after only a few years of being a witch, something that would take demons and other witches several years to master.

List of users

 * Phoebe Halliwell
 * Prue Halliwell, in Love Hurts after Piper casts a spell to Switch Powers
 * Patricia Halliwell, while pregnant with Phoebe
 * Melinda Warren
 * Melinda Halliwell (possibly)
 * Matthew Tate - (Copied from Phoebe Halliwell)
 * Cryto - (Stolen from Phoebe in How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans)
 * Kyra
 * The Seer
 * Crone
 * Prophets
 * Enola
 * Elders
 * Zankou - (Stolen from Phoebe Halliwell)
 * Angel of Destiny
 * Ronny, (after accidentaly absorbing Phoebe's powers)
 * Monkey Phoebe (after being injected with Phoebe's Blood)
 * Curtis Williamson (after being injected with Phoebe's Blood)
 * Mitzy Stillman (Stolen from Phoebe Halliwell)
 * Bo Lightfeather
 * Stan Provazolli
 * Evil Phoebe in the Parallel World

Users who achieve this power through Crystallomancy

 * Pearl Russell
 * The Oracle
 * Gideon
 * Madame Teresa
 * Demonic Sorcerer