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.