So being friends with a girl you like before taking it to the next step is manipulative???!!
Weird.
Weirdddddd....
Weird.
Lol. I never said it was manipulative. And I do not know what this observation happen to trigger in anyone reading it.
If this is anyone else's MO, I am not judging. But let's not put words in my mouth or make a neutral observation into anything personal.
My observation is that Taurus is not as straightforward as it seems. I've observed a certain MO in the way it gets what it wants.
If one wish to analyze the underlying mechanisms, I believe it has something to do with the sign being ruled by Venus.
Aries and Scorpio are ruled by Mars. It will just go for what it wants by action. But Venusian energy slows down things a bit. It wants to be harmonious. It doesn't want to be too obvious. It wants to attract. It doesn't want to "go after it" in a Martian way. Yet inside, it still wants what it wants, the same way a more aggressive sign does, but they are ruled by Venus and unable to express it as overtly. So the actions are geared towards making you comfortable and getting you to come to them.
This dichotomy between intent and action can give the impression of leading people on, being misleading and not being straightforward with what they
really want.
If there happen to be Pluto afflictions to personal planets (and possibly some Neptune afflictions), then I believe
intentional manipulation occurs, and it adds to the existing intent and action dichotomy. Archetypical Taurus energy is very honest though. Misunderstandings are largely due to the Venusian impulse and more or less unintentional.