Talk:Glynda Goodwitch/@comment-2600:8806:4904:D600:5191:8E8E:996E:DF1C-20170925140631/@comment-26397825-20170925141725

The Volume One, Episode One glyph can be put down to them still figuring out what they were doing in terms of powers. They hadn't set things in stone, and in fact I believe not all of what she does is telekinesis; she's also a highly adept aura user. The glyph can be equated to an extremely advanced shield - more powerful and requiring more control than Ren, Cinder and Amber's aura shields that we've seen, but not quite on the same level as Ozpin's Dome Shield that he used against Cinder.

Weiss has also been observed to magic missile Grimm; in Players and Pieces she sends magic missiles at the Giant Nevermore. I'm fairly certain those 'magic' missiles Glynda uses in Volume Three are just a form of aura attack like the Blade Beams we've seen Qrow and Blake use in the past. Bright purple is the colour of Glynda's aura, so the missiles matching her aura colour makes sense.

Basically, not magic, just a very advanced Aura Shield (back when they were still figuring out how things would work and what they would look like) and basic Aura Missiles (which Weiss has also been shown doing in a colour that pretty much matches her aura colour).