“It might be better to say that is how I use it,” she explains. “I am Aes Sedai. I channel saidar, the One Power, drawn from the True Source, which is the very force of Creation itself. There are five powers that comprise the One Power - earth, air, fire, water, and spirit. To combine these in useful configurations is to weave. Some might call these configurations spells, I suppose, instead of weaves.”