Premonition

The gift of premonition is the passive ability to receive visions of the past or future. This is Phoebe Halliwell's original power from season 1 onward ("Something Wicca This Way Comes"). She later loses her active powers, including her premonitions, for abusing her magic, but goes on to earn it back ("Styx Feet Under").

Throughout the series, Phoebe's powers have progressively grown, originally being able to only see the future, to being able to see visions of the past ("The Witch Is Back"), and then being able astral project into her future self's body ("The Eyes Have It"), or at least being able to possess a separate body from her future self in a vision. At one point, Phoebe was seemingly able to call for a vision when touching Piper's plane ticket in "The Power Of Two," allowing her to see that Piper was going to miss her plane.

In order to receive a premonition, Phoebe had to make contact with an object that somehow related to the situation or person her vision was about. Several times, Phoebe has receieved a vision without touching anything, one example being when the Seer sent her a vision of Paige's demise ("Womb Raider"), and another being when entering the demon Vinceres' apartment, where the psychic energy was abundant enough that the need to touch anything was absent ("Primrose Empath")

The demonic Seer Kyra once said that she had to touch objects also when she was starting in her craft. 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 could hint at to what Phoebe's powers become should they develop any further.

It is seemingly possible to transfer a premonition to another person, but it seems that the person on the receiving end must also possess the power. Examples of this would be:

-The Seer to Phoebe -Kyra to Phoebe -Phoebe to bystander (after Zankou interrupted a power switching spell) -Phoebe to Odin

We have seen Phoebe's power of premonition grow into two separate powers twice in the series, once in "Morality Bites," where we see that Phoebe's power evolves into the ability of electro-mental ignitions, allowing her to electrocute and destroy the minds of her victims. The second time was in "Valhalley Of the Dolls Part 1" where Phoebe states herself that her power of empathy must've grown from her power of premonition. This became one of her permanent powers until it was taken away in season 6 for the misuse of her powers.