Followed tutorial for Particular wind effect, effect not showing up

If you just move light on a path, Properly name the light to Motion Path 1, then apply that to physics you should see particles swirling around the motion path like this:

I animated the motion path of the light layer that is selected, then opened up Particular, set the position of the emitter to be over the start of the motion path, opened up Physics and set the Motion Path to HQ 1. That is all that I did and the particles are moving down the path. This screenshot shows you every modified property in the composition. All you have to do is duplicate these settings.

I would start by selecting the Particular layer, pressing U twice to reveal everything you have modified in the timeline, then start resetting the modified properties for everything except those that are in my screenshot. If you don't see particles then there is something else going on in the project that I'm not seeing.

Again, if you just spend an hour or so with the basics and on the Red Giant site looking at well-written tutorials, you would have this problem solved. After Effects is thousands of times more complicated than Photoshop or Illustrator and I have never met anyone that has been successful using AE that just started poking around in the UI and looking at a few tutorials.

Select the light, press AA to reveal the light properties and make the change.

Sounds like you should be spending some time on the Adobe tutorials site too. You can find a lot of good tutorials right here on the forum by just clicking on the Overview​ link in the top left corner of the Forum. You'll find this:

First of all, that is a pretty crummy tutorial. There are no explanations and it's an inefficient workflow.

Without seeing a screenshot of your comp with the modified properties of the layers involved it's nearly impossible to see what you have left out. We also need a detailed workflow description noting where you start to go wrong.

In the future make sure you vet your trainers. Make sure they know what they are doing. The easiest way to find good tutorials is to look to the manufacturer first. For Particular, go to the RedGiant site.