They don't conflict, per se, for the two classes of spirits exist and operate in different spheres.

To explain what this means, it really helps to understand the Cosmos as it was understood by those who originated both elemental and angelic Magic. While we are perhaps today more familiar with the Qabalistic Tree of Life, these same ten divisions can easily be related to the Ptolemaic cosmology which prevailed in Western occultism before Qabalah was integrated into the main body of Western practice. The arrangement outlined by Ptolemy was usually illustrated thus:

At the center is the Earth, or Sphere of the Elements. Centermost is the inner circle representing the denser elements, Earth and Water, as the lands, lakes, rivers and seas that we know. In a ring about this are stylized clouds representing the first subtle element, Air, and beyond this is another ring set about with flames to represent the most subtle element of all, Fire. All of

these are beneath the Sphere of the Moon, which is the lowest Heaven or Celestial Sphere, and together are called "The SubLunary World". According to the ancients, it is within this Sphere of the Elements that elemental spirits operate, and from where we conjure them. Working outward then from this inner region, you will see seven concentric rings, actually numbered from 1 to 7 and marked with the conventional glyphs of the seven ancient Planets (which meant "wanderers", as they moved about relative to the field of Fixed Stars which rose and set, but always maintained the same position relative to each other). In numerical order, and from closest to the Earth to most distant, these are the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. While the Planets are loosely affiliated with the four Elements, depending on the Signs of the Zodiac which they rule, they actually represent their own sevenfold spectrum of forces. Again according to the writers of antiquity, it is over these seven Spheres that the Planetary Angels have authority, and from which Planetary spirits are conjured. Beyond the seven Planetary Spheres, we come to the Sphere of Fixed Stars, which is divided into twelve Houses, each under the rulership of a Sign of the Zodiac. These Signs do possess Elemental natures, three Signs to each Element. If one thinks of the Four Elements manifest in the Sub-Lunary World as their material manifestation, or Earth of Fire, Earth of Air, Earth of Water and Earth of Earth, that leaves the Celestial elemental manifestations to represent the Firey, Airy and Watery aspects of the Elements, corresponding respectively to the Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable Signs. The Signs of the Zodiac do have their governing Angels and ministering spirits as well, and these partake of the Element of their Sign, but they are held to be under the rulership of one or another of the Planets, which are superior to the Sphere of Elements and so their elemental nature is not as pronounced. Beyond the Sphere of Fixed Stars, we come to the Sphere of the

Primum Mobile - the "First Mover" that drives the entire mechanism. Its nature is expressed therefore through all the Spheres and all their Forces, and it has no Angels or spirits of its own other than God Almighty - who might be Invoked, but never conjured. There are further elaborations of this general system, such as the division of each Sign into three Decans, each with their own distinct Angels, spirits and Planetary rulers, and also within the Sub-Lunary World, the subtle Elements were populated by "Airy Spirits" which were not elemental in nature, but rather agents or distributors of the Planetary powers that were collected in and transmitted through the Sphere of the Moon, which is where the ancients derived the notion of Diana, the goddess of the Moon, as the Queen of the Fairies. But all of this is really secondary to the question you ask. So the differing kinds of spirit work or Angel work are compatible, as they are all part of the same overall conception of the Magical Universe rather than competitors from different models of the Cosmos. I hope that this was not too tedious an explanation, but it is rare to find it actually spelled out, as it is the sort of thing not addressed in the Grimoires for the same reason we don't spend much time today discussing the months of the calendar - it was taken for granted that anyone working Magic was already familiar with the arrangement, and thus required no explanation.