The Power of Three/Examples

A chart of when the Power of Three was utilized in various ways, listed in chronological order.

Season 1[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Unaired Pilot Something Wicca This Way Comes	Phoebe cast the spell Dominus Trinus.	To awaken the powers of the Charmed Ones.	Succeeded.
Unaired Pilot Something Wicca This Way Comes	Cast the Power of Three Spell.	To vanquish the warlock, Jeremy Burns.	Successfully vanquished Jeremy.
I've Got You Under My Skin	Cast the spell to invoke the Hand of Fatima.	To banish the demon, Javna.	Successfully turned Javna to ash, and saved his victims.
Thank You For Not Morphing	Cast the Safety Spell.	To vanquish the shapeshifters, Fritz, Marshall, and Cynda.	Succeeded.
The Witch is Back	Cast the spell To Call Blood to Blood.	To summon forth Melinda Warren in their mission to defeat Matthew Tate.	Succeeded.
Wicca Envy	Cast the spell To Relinquish Our Powers.	To transfer their entire family's magic into Rex Buckland's lantern.	Successful, but Leo Wyatt later reversed the spell.
That '70s Episode	Cast the spell To Unbind a Bond.	To take the Charmed Ones to when the original spell was cast.	Successful.
That '70s Episode	Young Prue, Piper, and Patty pregnant with Phoebe, cast the spell To Return to Your Own Time.	To return the Charmed Ones to their own timeline.	Successful.

Season 2[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Witch Trial	Cast the Power of Three Spell.	To vanquish the warlock, Jeremy Burns again.	Successful.
Witch Trial	Drew the Triquetra symbol on the attic wall then all three held hands to open a portal to the Astral Plane.	To retrieve the Book of Shadows from the demon, Abraxas.	Successful, but failed to retrieve the book.
Witch Trial	Cast the Dominus Trinus, with the Equinox to enhance their power.	To retrieve the Book of Shadows and banish the demon, Abraxas.	Successful.
Morality Bites	Cast the spell To Move Ahead in Time.	To travel to the year of 2009 and find out why Phoebe was being burned.	Successful, with the Elders' magical assistance.
How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans	Fed Cryto the power-transferring potion, then cast the spell To Call a Witch's Power.	To retrieve their powers stolen by the demon, Cryto.	Succeeded.
Be Careful What You Witch For	Cast the Power of Three Spell.	To vanquish the Dragon Warlock.	Succeeded.

Season 3[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Once Upon a Time	Cast the spell To See the Unseen.	To see fairies and trolls.	Successful.
Power Outage	Lost powers restored.	The will to protect one another and stand united against Belthazor.	Successful.
Sleuthing with the Enemy	Cast the spell to activate the Upper Level Demon Vanquishing Potion for Belthazor.	To vanquish the demon Belthazor.	Successful in activating the potion, but it was never used.
Coyote Piper	Terra, while possessing Piper, cast the Alchemist-Vanquishing Spell with Prue and Phoebe.	To vanquish her creator Kierkan.	Succeeded.
Coyote Piper	Cast the spell To Expel a Life Essence.	To free Leo Wyatt from the Life Essence, Terra.	Succeeded.
Blinded by the Whitelighter	Cast the Eames-Vanquishing Spell.	To vanquish the warlock, Eames.	Succeeded.
Bride and Gloom	Cast the spell To Vanquish a Dark Priestess.	To vanquish Dantalian.	Succeeded.
Death Takes a Halliwell	Cast the Seekers-Vanquishing Spell.	To destroy the Seekers.	Succeeded.
Pre-Witched	Cast the spell How to Perform a Seance.	To contact Ariel's spirit and find out more about the Familiar Warlock, Shadow.	Succeeded.
Pre-Witched	Cast the spell To Vanquish a Familiar Warlock.	To vanquish the warlock, Shadow, by magnifying his last death by nine times.	Succeeded.

Season 4[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Charmed Again, Part 1	Piper and Phoebe hold hands with Paige inside the Halliwell Manor.	To reconstitute the Charmed Ones and replace Prue with Paige.	Successful, though unwittingly.
Charmed Again, Part 1	Cast the Shax-Vanquishing Spell.	To vanquish the demon Shax.	Successful.
Size Matters	Cast the spell to vanquish Gammill.	To vanquish Gammill.	Succeeded.
Muse to My Ears	Cast the spell To Vanquish a Warlock.	To vanquish the faction leader, Devlin.	Vanquished the decoy, Hector.
Muse to My Ears	Cast the spell To Find a Muse.	To teleport themselves to their muse, Melody, and the Ring of Inspiration.	Transported to P3, where Melody was being kept.
Muse to My Ears	Cast the spell To Vanquish a Warlock.	To vanquish the faction leader, Devlin.	Successfully vanquished Devlin.
Lost and Bound	Cast the spell To Open a Door.	To open a gate that was magically protected and rescue Tyler.	Failed.
Lost and Bound	Cast a spell to vanquish Ludlow.	To vanquish the headmaster of a demonic training academy, Ludlow.	Successful.
Charmed and Dangerous	Cast the spell To Call a Witch's Power.	An attempt to call back Piper and Paige's stolen powers from the Source of All Evil.	Summoned the Source instead.
Charmed and Dangerous	Cast the spell To Call Upon Our Ancestors.	To vanquish the Source of All Evil.	Successful.
The Three Faces of Phoebe	Cast the spell To Vanquish Kurzon.	To vanquish the faction leader, Kurzon.	Successful.
Long Live the Queen	Cast the spell To Call Upon Our Ancestors.	To vanquish Cole Turner.	Successful.
Womb Raider	Cast The Power of Three Spell.	To make the Seer tap into the Source's Heir's power and destroy all demons present while protecting themselves.	Successful.

Season 5[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
A Witch's Tail, Part 1	Cast the To Track the Sea Hag spell.	To find the Sea Hag and the mermaid Mylie.	Unwittingly turned Phoebe into a mermaid.
A Witch's Tail, Part 2	Paige cast a Power of Three spell to vanquish Necron.	To vanquish the demon, Necron.	Successful.
Sympathy for the Demon	Cast the spell To Call Upon Our Ancestors.	To vanquish the demon, Barbas.	Failed.
Y Tu Mummy También	Piper alone cast a spell to use the Power of Three to To Drive Isis's Soul Out of a Body.	To free Paige from Isis's possession.	Successful.
Centennial Charmed	Paige joined hands with Piper and Phoebe in the alternate timeline where they never met.	To recreate the Power of Three in the alternate timeline and grant Paige her powers, and vanquish Cole Turner once and for all.	Successful, and the timeline was restored.
Sand Francisco Dreamin'	Cast the Sleeping Spell.	To face their subconscious problems and rid their real-life counterparts.	Successful.
Sense and Sense Ability	Piper and Phoebe held Paige's arms and called for Wyatt together.	To help Paige tap into her power and orb Wyatt into her arms from the Crone.	Successful.
Oh My Goddess! Part 2	Joined hands to form a Force Field together as Goddesses.	To protect themselves and the Elder, Roland, from the Titans' attacks.	Manage to hold them off long enough for Leo to orb them to safety.

Season 6[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
The Power of Three Blondes	The Stillman Sisters cast the Identity Theft Spell to steal the Charmed Ones' identities, altering all memory and data in the process.	To become the Charmed Ones.	Successful.
The Power of Three Blondes	The Stillman Sisters cast the To Call a Witch's Power from the Book of Shadows.	To steal the Charmed Ones' powers.	Successful, but Paige retained her Whitelighter powers.
The Power of Three Blondes	Cast the spell To Call a Witch's Power.	To regain their powers stolen by the Stillman Sisters.	Successful.
Witchstock	Paige cast a Power of Three spell alone to vanquish the Slime Demon.	To vanquish the Slime Demon.	Successful.
Used Karma	Cast the spell to vanquish the Swarm King.	To vanquish an entire army of Swarm Demons, because they are all symbiotically connected.	Successful.
The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell	United concentration.	To summon the Headless Horseman.	Succeeded.
The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell	Cast a spell to vanquish the Headless Horseman.	To vanquish the Headless Horseman and undo his magic.	Successfully vanquish him and the sisters' heads were reunited with their bodies.
Spin City	Created a Spider Demon Vanquishing Potion mixed with the blood of each Charmed One.	To vanquish the Spider Demon.	Never used.
It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 1	Cast a spell to open a portal to the Parallel World.	Meant to send Chris Halliwell and Leo Wyatt to the future.	Chris and Leo stepped into the Parallel World while their evil counterparts stepped into theirs.
It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 1	Cast a spell to re-open the portal to the Parallel World.	To send Phoebe Halliwell and Paige Matthews to the Parallel World while their evil counterparts went to theirs.	Phoebe and Paige wound up in the Parallel World, but their evil counterparts stayed.

Season 7[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Extreme Makeover: World Edition	Cast a global sleeping spell with the Avatars.	Induce sleep on all humans across the world and vanquish the remaining demons while the Avatars created Utopia.	Successful.
Carpe Demon	Cast the spell to vanquish the Demonic Sorcerer.	To vanquish the Demonic Sorcerer.	Successful.
Scry Hard	Cast the spell to summon the Nexus.	To summon forth the Nexus and let Zankou take it in.	The Nexus went into Leo Wyatt's mortal body.
Scry Hard	Cast the Woogyman Spell.	To banish the Nexus from Leo's body.	Succeeded.
Something Wicca This Way Goes...?	Cast the Woogyman Spell from Magic School.	To banish the Nexus from Zankou's body.	Succeeded.
Something Wicca This Way Goes...?	Cast a spell to turn Zankou into a pig.	To distract Zankou from taking in the Nexus while attempting to take back the Book of Shadows.	Succeeded, but Zankou soon reversed the spell and stopped them.
Something Wicca This Way Goes...?	Cast the Power of Three Spell.	To reconnect with the Book of Shadows and take it back from Zankou's possession.	Succeeded.
Something Wicca This Way Goes...?	Cast the spell To Banish a Suxen.	To destroy the Nexus along with Zankou, who has taken in the power.	Succeeded.

Season 8[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Rewitched	Cast the Antosis Vanquishing Spell.	To vanquish the demon, Antosis.	Successful.
Vaya Con Leos	Cast the spell to summon an Angel of Destiny.	To summon the Angel of Destiny.	Successful.
Repo Manor	Three slave Demons, Pilar, Phoenix and Patra, trapped the sisters in the Doll House to channel the Power of Three.	To vanquish the the Slave King and free their kind.	Succeeded.
Repo Manor	Convinced the Slave Demons to use their own powers and enhance Paige's power of Orbing via the Power of Three.	To retrieve the Power of Three and escape back to the Manor with Doll House and find Billie Jenkins for help.	Succeeded.
12 Angry Zen	Combined their power with Buddha's Mystical Staff and Billie's power of Projection.	To vanquish the demon Novak and his followers.	Succeeded.
The Torn Identity	Cast the spell To Find a Demon.	To track down the Noxon Demon, Pator.	Succeeded.
Kill Billie: Vol. 2	Cast a spell to summon the Hollow.	To become powerful enough to kill Billie and Christy Jenkins.	Succeeded.

Season 9[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
Unnatural Resources	Cast a spell to vanquish the Source of All Evil, combined with Excalibur and magic of all supernatural creatures.	To vanquish the Source of All Evil.	Successful.
Last Witch Effort	Phoebe cast an alternate Dominus Trinus.	To connect telepathically with Piper and Paige.	Successful.
The Charmed Offensive	Cast a spell to place Paige's soul back inside her body.	To save Paige and complete the Power of Three.	Succeeded.
The Charmed Offensive	Cast a spell with all witches of the Warren Line to bind Neena's magic.	To stop Neena from destroying the Upper Regions.	Succeeded.
The Charmed Offensive	Cast a spell with all witches of the Warren Line, combined with the Elders' powers and Leo Wyatt's Empyreal Sword to separate the Sphaera of Light and Dark.	To separate the Upper Regions from the Underworld and return both sides of beings to their rightful places.	Succeeded.
Prue Ya Gonna Call?	Prue, now with all powers of the Charmed Ones inside her, cast the Power of Three Spell.	To return the powers to her sisters.	Succeeded.
The Darklight Zone	Cast a spell To View the Nexus of the All on the satellites.	To find the location of the All.	Succeeded.
The Power of 300	Cast The Power of Three Spell with their minds.	To free themselves from the darklighter Rennek's binds.	Succeeded.
The Power of 300	Cast a spell to vanquish Rennek.	To vanquish Rennek.	Failed.

Season 10[]

Appearances	Use	Reason	Outcome
No Country for Old Ones	Cast a spell to vanquish Gaxageal.	To vanquish the Old One, Gaxageal.	Weakened him, allowing Paige to vanquish him by orbing out his heart.
The Perks of Being a Whitelighter	Cast a spell To Reverse the True Self Spell.	To turn a swarm of cats back into the young witch, Aidel.	Successful.
Charmed Assault	Cast a spell to return the dead to their rest.	To reverse Valen's animation on the dead bodies.	Succeeded.
Whatever Happened to the Demon with a Soul?	Cast the Depowering Spell.	To destroy Valen's shillelagh and make the Ancient Athame destroy him.	Succeeded.
Virtue	Cast the Shax Vanquishing Spell with Prue.	To vanquish the demon Shax.	Succeeded.
The Reason	The Book of Shadows unleashes the Dominus Trinus spell.	To make Prue a Charmed One again.	Successful.
The Reason	Piper stabs Prue with the Ancient Athame, making Paige a Charmed One again.	To stop Prue and put things right.	Successful.