Aries Man chasing a Taurus Woman

Just like the title says, I've been veeeery much attracted to a very beautiful, smart, funny and just plain awesome Taurus gal. Now, I know Aries and Taurus aren't the best mix and honestly, at this point, I'm probably at my limits. But I stumbled upon this interesting forum and would love some advice, hints, any kind of guidance.

[Story Time]

So first, I wanted to be in a serious relationship with this girl. She made the approuch one night at a bar, I was sitting alone and we caught each other's eyes and she started talking to me from across the way. It was honestly really refreshing and we had a really fun conversation. Next couple of days were a blast...non stop texting, our conversations were flowing. I took the initiative and asked her out first. But she ghosted my ass. Never knew why, until a couple of years later, her best friend tells me she was interested in someone way before talking to me, at the end of it she ended up with someone and prob the reason she ghosted me. Not to mention she prob only saw me as a friend.

Fastfoward to present day, I get told she and her BF recently broke it off and by this time me and her are talking a bit more again, sharing stories, memes, just joking. She just started school again and is constantly busy, but before that I told her how I felt, I decided I didn't want to wait until she got the hint, I'd tell her straight up. She told me that she wasn't emotionally available at the moment and that she couldn't really do much because of school too. I respected it, but the ball was completely in her court. Conversations continued normally.

Exactly 3 days later, I find her on tinder. That instantly hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew deep down, and this is me assuming, but i know she wasn't there for random conversations and new friendships. So yeah, got me a bit heated. Haven't confronted her about it cuz it's honestly not my place. I'm not her BF or anything special to come at her like that.

She's kinda starting to ignore my messages again and it honestly sucks. At this point I kinda just want to give up or try for the friends with benefits conversation, as shitty as it sounds, but I've invested a lot of myself into her to come out empty handed. Forum....what should I do? Should I just give up? Move on or am I going about this all wrong? I've asked her out on dinner dates, orchestras, movies and just plain old walks at the part to eat ice cream and talk. HELP!!

Sounds like you're going to come up empty. I'd ask her to hang out some time, no pressure. If she says yes, face to face ask her if she'd be interested in something serious with you.

If she never says yes to #1 there's no need to ask #2

Mate, sorry can’t help but notice, this is happening with a lot of Aries guys at the moment, just read the other similar messages here. Whatever you do don’t panic, wish I could take my own advice. Have patience, again wish I could take my own advice. And get the dates, don’t worry about the chit chat, from what I can tell Taurus will reply if there’s a point to your messages, but not otherwise, so ask her out. That’s all text messages should be there for anyway. It’s like the universe just put Aries guys with Taurus women recently, just so Taurus can not message us. Does she reply when you ask her out? It’s like anything that doesn’t 100% need a response, then that won’t get a response.