Visual Dictionary of Canon Starlight Glimmer Spells · 9:51pm Jan 26th, 2022
In The Runaway Bodyguard and The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers REMASTERED, Starlight and others demonstrate a few seemingly idiosyncratic spells actually shown in episodes. Other spells are used but not named. The stories name these spells. Below is an alphabetically arranged visual list defining each canon spell that is also used or referred to in the stories. The healing magic Starlight learns from Dr. Flowing Waters in the second story is implied in the show, but I am unaware of it being used specifically in an episode.
Aerial Buoyancy — See Pegasus Simulation.
Conjure (Teacup!) in All Bottled Up, taught by Starlight but demonstrated here by Trixie. Celestia and Sunset Shimmer use it in the stories. 
Don’t Look Don’t See Don’t Hear in To Where and Back Again Part One
Force in The Ending of the End Part One, but many other places. See also Levitate with Transform
Force with a Barthemule Omega Transform (Two Images) in The Cutie Map Part Two
Gateway in School Daze Part One, cast by Chancellor Neighsay. Starlight mentions casting it in The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers REMASTERED, so this is for reference that Gateway is canon.
Illuminate (Level 1) iconically cast by Snails in Boast Busters. Probably everypony’s second spell, for reading under the blankets or keeping the monster under the bed at bay. Illuminate can be cast at different levels with extra splendors of magic. Level 1: Light Horn, Level 2: Light Surface, Level 3: Tune Color, Level 4: Multi-color, Level 5: Rainbow Color. 
Levitate in Every Little Thing She Does. Every unicorn can do this one, but now it has a name. Each pony is limited in count of objects and pony weights of combined objects. In the stories, a unicorn can improve her ability by exercising with the spell often.
Levitate with Transform (Scrub) in The Crystalling Part One. Levitate has plenty of other transforms like Grab, Motivate, Push, and Pull. Force is a frictional cylindrical transform of Levitate, but, because of its classification as battle magic, usually is considered its own spell. The majority of Starlight’s spells noted directly in the stories are transformed Levitate.
Mark Unmarking in The Cutie Map Part One
Mark Swap in The Royal Problem as a time-limited spell.
Pegasus Simulation in Every Little Thing She Does. This is intrinsic pegasus magic Starlight calls Aerial Buoyancy cast without having pegasus wings. Nopony other than Starlight can self-levitate (except the moment they earn their cutie mark). Note that in Magic Duel Twilight is standing on water not self-levitating.
Shield (Level 2 because of the insignia) in Every Little Thing She Does
Shield with a Barthemule Omega Transform in Every Little Thing She Does. Not included in the stories, but that is what it would be called.
Teleport (Two Images) in Every Little Thing She Does. Here Starlight demonstrates not only Teleport but having read Twilight’s magic vectors to follow her from the castle to the sky. Teleport is something only she, Twilight, Celestia, Luna, Flurry Heart, and Sunset can cast (I think).
Story notes:
The magic in these stories is performed in part mathematically. There are also codicils, mnemonics, targeting vectors, transforms, wish predicates, and sometimes poetry. Casting involves a unicorn using her horn to mentally calculate solutions to violation physics equations or to manipulate visualized shapes. These mental constructs can be transformed mathematically to change the affects of a spell. Doing so is a transform of a spell. A unicorn’s aura reveals details of the mental manipulation done to cast and maintain a spell, and can be read by anypony perceptive enough to learn how. (For a canon example, see Teleport above). Actual casting requires the unicorn to flood her horn with enough splendors of magic to do the work she wished for.
The clue that magic requires mathematics is that Twilight can calculate complex square roots in her head in The Crystal Empire Part One.
Are there errors or omissions? Please leave a comment and I will fix or add them. Feel free to comment generally about the spells or the magic theory!
Believe it or not, this is going to become an invaluable resource for me in the future, so thank you. c.c
This is so cool. I kind of love how the show implies but never states that SG > Unicorn Twilight and how she was the only one to levitate.
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That makes me really happy. You are welcome. If there are spells I missed, I can add them.
BTW, I changed Mark Extraction to Mark Unmarking. When editing the chapter where it is mentioned, I realized that Mark Unmarking just sounded better and rolled off the tongue. Since there’s a mnemonic component to the spell casting in the name, I really needed to fix that.
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Yep, never states, but Starlight Glimmer’s lack of hesitancy is a key. She is the highest level unicorn, more powerful than Twilight whenever they clash. Princess Twilight won the time loop duel because of psychology, not magic.
I’m pretty sure ponygrad meant self-levitate, yep, uniquely OP Starlight.
What of the mind control spell she used on 5 of the main 6? In "Every Little Thing She Does" Fiducia Compelus spell in conjunction with Cogeria and Persuadere
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Silvadel, thank you for bringing up a very important point! You get a gold star: 🌟
Whilst I did write,
...and did include a spell not in the stories, I think I will omit the spell Forcefully Persuading transform of Compelling Confidence for the following reasons:
To the degree that a person would not admit to certain things in their past (e.g., expunged juvie record), I try to make my Enforcerverse stories with Starlight Glimmer adhere to a story line that allows these stories to fill in the background not provided by the series. I want readers to read my Starlight stories—noticing how Starlight can fight, can be evil in a very ethical way, hate cutie marks and entitled ponies, and be more powerful than Twilight—and say, "Yeah, wow, now I understand why she's that way!" In the original version of The Enforcer and Her Blackmailers, written in 2016, I wrote the following where Starlight is negotiating with police to set up a crime boss to be captured:
That was from Chapter 27, which I published in May. The episode Every Little Thing She Does with those spells aired in September of 2016. When I wrote the lines above, the only mind control was Sombra's dark magic used to enslave the Crystal Ponies.
That said, I really dislike that the writers made SG cast mind control spells so cavalierly. In this age of consent, I'm astonished anyone found it comedic. Moreover, the spell might have been useful when dealing with Queen Chrysalis and other invaders/antagonists, but was conveniently forgotten.
My Starlight Glimmer would never cast a mind control spell, because she got used and abused by such a spell, and was forced to act without her consent. So, not adding it.
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The thing that I disliked the most about the mind control spell was that NONE of the 5 of 6 even had a chance at resisting it. They are strong willed ponies and for the spell to be THAT powerful was scary.
Mind control continued to be a thing when Twilight had 20+ books in the library with reform spells that she was considering using on discord and found the spells gone and eaten.
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I remember that, but at least they weren’t going to be used on innocents.
Agreed. Yay Discord!
In Every Little Thing She Does, I think maybe the writers wanted to imply Starlight lacked empathy and was still evil deep down. I’m convinced she had her problems learning friendship lessons because—thanks to Twilight’s psychological smack-down at the end of The Cutie Re-mark Part Two—she thought too much about what everypony thought and worried she was making them feel bad by her trying to be friends. My “head-canon” anyway.
Thanks for the discussion!