You are not to pray to angels. Pray to God. Do not worship angels. Jesus is your advocate. Each time a saint bowed to an angel, the angel said DON’T DO THAT. If the Angel said to take your shoes off because you are on Holy Ground, that was Jesus, the Angel of the Lord.
Prayer is not worship.
To pray is to ask. Simply that. Everyone on this thread prays to other people perhaps a dozen times a day.
Our modern English language comes directly from the Elizabethan period. Check out any play from that period.
See how many times the characters say “I pray thee” or “I prithee”. They are not worshipping each other. They are asking for help or assistance.
Ask Michael the Archangel to do his job, in the same way as you would ask your Sherriff to do his.
You do pray to angels to pray to God for you.