>>13189704We'd have seen mini-nova activity along the Milky Way long before it reaches us.
While, yes, this is a natural cycle of stars to flip their poles and back again, shedding their mantle, it's not something subtle that creeps up on us.
The good news is, even if the Sun does flip out, the Earth has to be in a specific position in the wake to get clipped by the plasma bolt/glass pellet spacedust shotgun blast, so fingers crossed and all that.
This really isn't something that improves with us worrying about it. It happenes every 12,000 - 14,000 years, and the last couple weren't devastating. So long as Greenland continues to stick out of the planet and act as a flywheel, we'll not even suffer much of a wobble even assuming we avoid a direct hit to the face. And even if we did, there is nothing we could do to prevent or mitigate it, so really, don't worry about it. It's part of Nature, if stars didn't do it they'd build up too much internal pressure and completely nova, and then we'd be totally fucked.
Keep your eyes on the stars closer to Galactic Central Point if this sort of thing worries you. It's a fun hobby gazing at the stars anyway. Soothing, even given the initial motiation to start here.
