Remember, there is no Twin Flame dogma and no single energy model to describe how Two Lovers recognize that they were always One. Don't let popular but insane beliefs distort your soul's path to Harmonious Twin Flame Union. Including the insane belief that Twin Flames are not supposed to be in physical Union, or that "the Twin Flame energy can come through anyone when you connect to your higher self."
These are limiting beliefs based on a profound sense of unworthiness, and you don't have to take on those beliefs on as your reality. The "twin flame" collective is built and fed by unworthiness. It wants to keep you in separation.
And the cosmology you experience on the way doesn't have to match what the "twin flame" collective believes in. I don't work with the Violet Flame, ascended masters, or angels. My Twin Flame path is Sri Vidya and Hekatean Witchcraft. A dark healing path of chthonic sorcery. Yours might be something else. Owning that is a necessary part of your empowerment.
Earlier this year I did a self-initiation ritual with the Goddess Hekate. There's a ritual in Besom, Stang & Sword called Stepping Onto The Crooked Path which I adapted, along with the self initiation from Keeping Her Keys and an adaptation of the 9-Day Rite from The Hekataeon. I made it about stepping onto my soul's unique magical path with the goddess Hekate, not in slave-like dedication to Her, and in the context of how and why She came to me in the first place: women's mysteries, reclamation and Harmonious Twin Flame Union.
The result I got was a sort of purging of my body, or inner purification. I think the rite released some psychic damage that was done by initiations I had received before. It drew back power that I had given to gurus and plugged me directly into the Source of that power.
Afterwards I was literally re-introduced, on an inner/astral level, to the Sri Vidya tradition that I had once relied on a guru to teach me. This time, Twin Flame Sri Vidya.
This was a major step towards sovereignty after a long time of mental imprisonment. Not the "final" step by a long stretch, but a very important breakthrough. Yours might not look like this, but it is important that you walk in the direction of your soul's truth, however that looks.