Powers and Abilities
In Charmed a Whitelighter is a human soul that has been made a "guardian angel" for good witches and other future Whitelighters (also known as a Whitelighter's "charge"). A Whitelighter acts in the service of The Elders who bestow these souls with their new angelic powers. Below is a list of notable powers associated with this race of guardian angels that have been used in multiple episodes and seasons.
| List of notable Whitelighter powers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | First Seen | Last Seen | Description | ||
| Orbing | 1x10 - "Wicca Envy" | 8x22 - "Forever Charmed" | A teleporting ability unique to Whitelighters as it allows them to travel between various supernatural worlds, including the magically guarded realm of The Elders often called "Up There" in the show. | ||
| Healing | 1x10 - "Wicca Envy" | 8x19 - "The Jung and the Restless" | The power to restore an individual to full health or an object to pristine condition. In the Charmed series, certain magical powers are attached to emotional triggers, although all powers can be affected by the user's emotions. For healing, the emotional trigger is love. Whitelighters can only use their healing powers on humans and not animals or demons. | ||
| Hovering | 1x14 - "Secrets and Guys" | 8x21 - "Gone with the Witches" | The supernatural power to rise in the air a few feet, similar to levitation but slower and just in one place, unlike flight. Whitelighters and Elders have the power to hover, and sometimes use it to meditate in a swirl of orbs. | ||
| Sensing | 1x14 - "Secrets and Guys" | 8x22 - "Forever Charmed" | This is a supernatural power which grants a Whitelighter a magical awareness of a charge's location and physical well being. This power enables a Whitelighter to hear the "call" of their charges whenever they are in need, allowing them to go the charge when they need them most. A Whitelighter's charge must not always vocally call out to them when they are in need. The sensing power allows the Whitelighter to instantly hear a charge's inner call whenever the charge is in immediate danger, which is, more often than not, life-threatening. | ||
| Glamouring | 3x07 - "Power Outage" | 8x12 - "Payback's a Witch" | A number of Whitelighters possess the power to glamour their identity by creating an illusion around their body to appear as another individual. | ||
| Photokinesis | 3x15 - "Just Harried" | 8x13 - "Repo Manor" | The ability to create and manipulate light. It is a power that is most commonly possessed by angelic beings, like Whitelighters and the Elders. This power is usually demonstrated by controlling orbs of light, rather than manipulating actual light. | ||
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