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People have made entire careers off the belief in and practices of astrology. The idea of the stars determining our fate has withheld people's interest for centuries. Robert Burns, an Aquarius, was very anti-superstition. He had almost no belief in astrological predictions or zodiac signs. There is some humor in this though, because through Burns' poems and songs this pseudoscience shows just how accurate it can be. The most parallel example of Burns' personality and his Aquarius sign can be seen in the work The Fornicator.
Robert Burns was born January 25, 1759, son to a dirt poor farmer and a mother who never learned to write her own name. He held many jobs before making a name for himself as a poet, to include a farmer and excise officer. Burns was famed for his poetry and songs and has been called Scotland's answer to Shakespeare. He was also renowned for his excessive drinking and womanizing, one such biographer, Ian McIntyre, remarked that Burns was "incapable of......

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