Six months after grams dies Phoebe Halliwell returns home to San Francisco from New York.She is drawn to the attic of her family's old Victorian house and finds the magical Book of Shadows.A rebellious free spirit, Phoebe has an established pattern of acting before thinking ,which prompts her to recite the spell that restores the sisters charmed powers.She instantly accepts the Halliwells' magical heritage but must convince her skeptical sisters that they have been endowed with powers.Although her priorities are boys and fun ,she likes being a witch who has visions of past and future and quickly accepts her charmed duty to protect the innocent.After she's turned evil by the Woggy ,she worries that she's more susceptible to the dark side than her sisters,a fear that haunts her in spite of a defined sense of purpose and direction for good.
Unable to find a job, Phoebe returns to college and graduates with a degree in psychology. When an innocent she saves quiets her job writing a newspaper advices column,Phoebe steps in and finds a new career.
Phoebe finds herself uncontrollably in love with a half demon half human Cole Turner, despite the fact that they met because he was trying to kill Phoebe and her sisters.She loves the good Cole,as well as being attracted ,somewhat ,to the evil.Her devotion to Cole briefly leads to her reign as his queen of the underworld.But her inherent devotion to good brings Phoebe back to her sisters and to her destiny as a charmed one a destiny that ultimately includes vanquishing Cole and the evil he embodies.His inability to resist the forces of evil killed Phoebe's love for him and himself,as well.
With Cole gone ,Phoebe turns her attention to other things. She becomes the primary mentor for Paige's studies in witchcraft.She dotes on nephew Wyatt.And she is very successful outside of the family business as her advise column really takes off.Finally ,Phoebe realizes that evil doesn't control her.Content and confident,she risks another romance ,with Jason Dean her handsome, ambitious boss.She saddened when he leaves for six months in Hong Kong, but she won't sit home and wait.Life and Phoebe go on with hope,joy and gusto.
With Cole behind her and her career as an advice column established,Phoebe adapts to her new empathic power.The loss of Jason Dean undermines her faith that she'll find true love and have a family. However,when a vision quest reveals a daughter in her future,she dates intensely to find the father.Phoebe's use of magic for personal gain prompts the tribunal to strip her powers,but having to rely on her wits and wisdom strengthens her as a charmed one.
Historically,Halliwell women have never held onto their men(except Piper),and Phoebe believes shes no different. Jason rejected her magic,Leslie choose his career and Cole was a demon.Her vision power is returned when she is willing to die for an innocent,and her neglected charmed identity is revived.However,the promise of a daughter is a persistent influence.She helps the Avatars to realize her dream and then risk her dream to make the world right again for everyone.Unaware that Cole sent Drake to save her from a loveless life,she cautiously considers the possibility of love.Her faked death clears the way to follow her dreams as a woman not a witch.
Phoebe as"Julie"doesn't have time to miss her old life:"Signs"lead her back to her column and solving charmed problems.After loving and losing Dex Lawson,who also rejected her magical identity,Phoebe's desperate attempts to conceive make her realize that something can't be forced to happen.The vision daughter is real eventually,she fall's in love with the child's father.In the meantime,she moves out of the manor to establish an individual life.Victim the victor in the ultimate battle that defeats the triad,she finally finds everything she ever wanted true love with Coop.
