Levitation is a skill you can learn! The description is: "Allows you to use the Focusing Orb to get brief moments of levitation by means of yogic-jumping"
It's a skill that lets you use a "Imagine levitation" verb on your Focusing Orb. For a short time after using that verb, your upward movement becomes slightly floaty and a series of jumps equates to rising freely. ...Is it just me or is this really hard to explain?
Maybe because it sounds a lot cooler than it actually is. hehe
I unlearned it immediately...is it really ever useful? Ever an instance where it can do something spinach can't do better?
With spinach you do not only jump high, but also move faster: if you need to jump high and have fine control over where you land, spinach's speed up is a downside. (Also spinach doesn't let you determine how high you jump, with levitate you have control over that.)
I levitate all the time. It's a great means of controlled-upward motion (spinach is a brute-force sort of thing, great for avoiding jujus, but not so much on the control). Also fun for flying across the sky and making lovely pictures. :)
I think of it as stylistic too. I meditate a lot for energy and mood, so levitating makes sense. Other people get most of their energy and mood through food and beverages, so eating spinach makes more sense for them. Many different ways of doing the same thing here in the Urniverse. :)
I use it every day. the orb is the only non-bag item in my inventory overlay because it's so versatile. also i keep my animals in a tree so i need to fly!