Need Help With Skill Gems

Hi, I am new to poe but until recently I have been using clarity and zealot as buffs along my fire and lightning golems, but now for some reason whenever I activate zealot I am unable to activate clarity and vice versa. Only one can be active at a time. Yes, I made sure both gems are still equipped.

Neither gem lists any weapon type requirement but my spec (dual wands) has not changed

Any suggestions? I tried unequipping and rewuipping the gems, moved the gems to other items with appropriate sockets, and still no luck.

Currently on Act 6 if that helps at all.

Clarity reserves 34 to 279 mana (depending on the gem level) and Zealotry reserves 50% of your mana. Maybe the two together add up to > 100% of your mana pool. Either take some mana reduction passives or get a jewel with "reduced mana" or link Clarity with Blood Magic support gem to use life instead of mana.

I am not the most experienced player out there but, auras reserve some mana. Zealotry reserves 50% of your mana. Clarity increases it reserve as it levels. Therefore eventually, there simply will not be enough non reserved mana to start Clarity.

Here is a handy link to help with auras and items to reduce the reservations:

https://poe.mikelat.com/#4_uSb/UEe.NoA1Qo

I hope this helps.

I'm running enkis arc ele build so I'm not sure if blood magic is a good fit. So in other words I outleveled my gems from being compatible with each other? I suppose I'll look for Mana reduction

You can buy a level 1 gem from the vendor in act 6 until you get the mana to support the higher level gems too.