If you're running your own node and using Zeus as your wallet, you can connect via Lightning Node Connect.
You can read about it here: https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lightning-terminal/lightning-node-connect
Basically you create an encrypted tunnel which lets you connect to your node outside of Tor, so it's super fast. There is sort of a third-party mailbox server in the middle but everything is enceypted.