Good luck in your struggles, but a word of advice/warning. Evocation is a fairly high-level magical skill. I'm not saying you can't do it, not by any means, but if you're as green as you say, learning basic things like banishing formulas, the Middle Pillar, and some form of Opening by Watchtower/Calling the Quarters will serve you in VERY good stead. You'll also just want to spend time practising your visualisation skills, as well as some form of scrying and possibly astral travels. These skills are the foundation for ALL magical work, not just evocation. They're not as hard as they sound either, although you may have to work a bit in the beginning while you get used to them.
Konstantinos, for all his "I'm so Gothic my dog barks Bauhaus" attitude, has actually written a very good primer for this very subject. It's called Summoning Spirits and it walks you through the process from beginning to end, as well as giving you a good basic set of exercises to do as preliminary work. A couple of his other books, like Gothic Grimoire and Nocturnal Witchcraft also give some really good energy work pieces to do, if you can get through the tedium of his being over-the-top Goth at times.
Now, if Dantalion is calling YOU all bets are off. I've had things like that happen before.
Keep us posted on how it works out.
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As the water grinds the stone, We rise and fall As our ashes turn to dust, We shine like stars... --Covenant, "Bullet"
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