Discarded Ideas

From the Ship of Fools Tarot, the Ace of Staves/Wands; from the Wisdom of the Four Winds, 'Owl:'

          If inspiration and innovation is the meaning of the Ace of Wands, why in the world would Williams choose to top his staff with a giant fool's hood? I am reminded of a quote in Through the Looking Glass from the White Queen who tells Alice: "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Original ideas sometimes require digging into the pile of impossibilities that many others have discarded. Yet those who are willing to entertain such are the ones who figure out how to land on the moon and create vaccines for measles and whooping cough. Owl sees in the darkness, which seems to parallel the Ace's thinking outside the box. Yet this bird doesn't spend its time circling the night sky but sitting patiently watching for movement. Its wisdom suggests all great ideas will take time to gestate in order for them to be built into something useful.