You don’t need candles lol, that’s just a tool not a requirement, but I still use candles, they’re useful in certain areas
For me it’s more about the throne, I consecrated an arm chair in both the physical and spirit world so it became my multidimensional throne, under it I put elemental tools and in the middle of them I put an ankh which is in vertical alignment my ass beneath the chair, I face south and have the North Star above me, the sun as my left brain at the east and the moon as my right brain at the west, you’re basically assuming Godhood as man by doing this
I still have traditional altar but I don’t need it to connect with spirits or perform magick
If anything just the throne by itself is enough, I think altar are for more specific rituals
I discovered this system on my own completely, you set up the throne, have the elements under it and maybe an ankh, invoke any spirits that you like for whatever purpose
I’d summon spirits to empower my magick, astral projection, love, sex, astral light etc. and I got extremely high off of it though I realized less spirits the better because invoking a bunch of spirits takes time and it’s exhausting
The breath is the magick itself, you’re breathing the spirits from the higher realms through your nose, the air element because the heart chakra is the rainbow bridge, breathing is the key because it’s the bridge
You’re overthinking it
Just sit in a chair, see it as reality revolving around you, summon some spirits, do breathwork, breathe the spirits (with your intention if you like) into the lower realms through your nose and into this world don’t your chakras, I like to breathe the North Star because it’s the center, and it powers pretty much everything
The first time I tried this I achieved spiritual perfection, my merkaba fully activated, I traveled back in time through my higher self where I saved my human self a bunch of times, I achieved super strength for a bit the energy flowing through me was pure cosmic energy and I became super super strong for a day, I became extremely clairvoyant, to the point where I was literally in space, it was like astral projectionish I suppose but it was more like a DMT trip, I met friends from the high heavens etc.
My sex spell manifested in a week lol and that wasn’t even the highlight of it
Honestly though people waste time on altars in my opinion, externalizing magick feels a little disempowering to me now, I use my altar only for rituals in grimoires and stuff
But other then that I’ll usually talk to spirits on my couch while I’m meditating I used to use the throne a lot but I got kind of sick externalizing again…
You’ll get to a point eventually where you don’t care about ritual magick anymore, the most advanced magicians I know just meditate all day and they do magick from the 4th, 5th and 6th dimensions, so the body is more like a puppet, you can do all of this stuff with your astral body
I see the whole ritual magick thing as training wheels for the higher dimensional magick, you don’t technically need anything for magick besides your will but hey I still use tools because it’s fun