I’ll share some stuff I arrived at over time, this is just from my own notes and not suggesting you have to use it but to show alternatives.
Raising energy and casting a kind of circle:
Binding (not banishing) “negative” forces:
Probably the biggest takeaway is the power of using your own core beleifs (mine are never going to be about a light/dark, angels/demons thing, even though I use those words as labels) as the guideline: for example, I prefer working with natural forces, reflected in the Stoicheia in the first thread, because I believe the universe tends towards more life, rather than being a cosmic battle between light and dark.