18/10/2026
Diana never asked permission to be alone in the woods.
The Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, she chose solitude deliberately — turning down marriage, keeping a retinue of nymphs rather than a husband, ruling the wild places rather than a household. She's often shown with a bow, a crescent moon at her brow, a pack of hounds at her heel.
She was also a fierce protector — of women in childbirth, of wild creatures, of anyone who needed sanctuary from being chased. Actaeon, the hunter who stumbled on her bathing and looked too long, learned her boundaries were not decorative.
I think there's something worth borrowing in her particular kind of independence — not loneliness, but a fullness that doesn't need anyone else's company to be complete.
✨ N x