“Sacred Knowledge and Hidden Mysteries.”
The High Priestess brings a message of sacred knowledge and hidden mysteries. She sits at the intersection of the conscious and unconscious mind and can integrate the two seamlessly. MINDCHURCH celebrates the hidden mysteries of music and the mind, and the sacred frequencies we use in our dance ritual. This year, celebrate the High Priestess by embracing the mystery of new experiences and connections behind every door of the MINDCHURCH hotel.
From Wikipedia:
“In the Rider–Waite-Smith tarot deck, upon which many modern decks are based, The High Priestess is identified with the Shekhinah, the female indwelling presence of the divine. She wears plain blue robes and sits with her hands in her lap. She has a lunar crescent at her feet, "a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place" similar to the crown of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, but with the horns having a shape more like half-crescents, and a large cross on her breast, the balance between the four elements: fire, water, earth, and air. The scroll in her hands, partly covered by her mantle, bears the letters TORA (meaning "divine law"), that symbolizes the memory we carry inside about the past, present and future, named Akasha. She is seated between the white and black pillars—'J' and 'B' for Jachin and Boaz—of the mystic Temple of Solomon. The veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palm leaves (male) and pomegranates (female), growing on a tree shaped like the tree of life.
The motif that hangs behind the High Priestess’s throne, veiling whatever mysteries she guards, is suggested in the pattern of The Empress' gown. The two are sisters, one bringing life into the world, the other inviting the living to the esoteric mysteries. Further behind all of that is what seems to be a body of water, most probably the sea. The water flows through most of the cards of the Rider–Waite–Smith Tarot.
According to A. E. Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the High Priestess card is associated with:
Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.”