Okay guys I have muddled my way thru thaumcraft & spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting my issue watching no less than 10 different vids on the infusion altar, some using more pedestals some using less blah blah.. Long story short I built a huge space for my altar where nothing random should be interfering with it I have a few but not a lot of clusters ect placed to help with flux, I've built & rebuilt the altar itself thinking that might be the issue. What happens is this I get everything setup to do say advanced golem all nice & neat on their pedestals, put the golem on his in middle.. step back click on matrix with my wand.. & I've tried 3 dif types of wands thinking that might be my problem.. but nothing happens.. nada.. no go everything stays right where it is, no magic essence comes out of the matrix, it just keeps on a spinning & my collected essence stays in the warded jars..