Planet X vs Sun: NOT Reversals but EXCURSIONS

It should be noted that where Solar Reversals are talked about as the
norm, in past evidence, excursions are the norm in evidence.  In other
words, REVERSALS are a simplification of the situation.  The
relationship to the Earth's magnetic field as expressed from the core,
to the Earth's crust above it, i.e. where it lies at any given time in
relationship to the magnetic field of the core, varries, but NOT in nice
180 degree changes except rarely.  

    ... events, known as 'excursions', are rather like 
    failed attempts at reversal. When they occur, the
    strength of the magnetic field falls dramatically 
    as well, by a factor of 5 or 10. Professor Gubbins
    has drawn on recent experimental results, 
    particularly those from a research group in 
    Utrecht headed by Dr Cor Langereis, which 
    clearly identify six relatively recent magnetic 
    excursions as true global phenomena. All the 
    excursions lasted roughly the same length of time - 
    about 5,000 years. Furthermore, preliminary 
    results from the recent Ocean Drilling Program 
    Leg 172 have revealed more than twenty 
    excursions recorded in sediments of the North 
    Atlantic in the same time period. While these 
    events have not been correlated world-wide, the 
    sediments indicate very clearly that excursions 
    are quite frequent events. Professor Gubbins 
    noted that there are about ten excursions between
    each full reversal. Every 20 - 50 thousand years, 
    the Earth's magnetic field collapses in a failed 
    attempt to reverse, but then re-establishes itself 
    quickly over a timescale of just a couple of
    thousand years. ...
New Insight Into Earth's Magnetic Quirks
Royal Astronomical Society Press Notice
Ref. PN 99/08, March 29, 1999

    Do the Earth's poles ever suffer a reversal during a 
    pole shift? No. The Earth's polarity, where the 
    magnetic North Pole points consistently in one 
    direction as though focused on a distant point in 
    the Universe, does not change, ever. This is an 
    illusion, a hypothesis that humans have concocted 
    to explain what they find in the Earth's crust. In 
    this hypothesis, they are assuming that the Earth's 
    crust does not move about, but it does. What humans 
    are measuring is the confusion in the crust, and not 
    the direction of the magnetic North Pole...  Scientists 
    who do not buy into the pole shift will argue 
    endlessly that it is the poles that move and reverse, 
    and any discussion with such scientists should 
    begin by first clarifying the pole shift premise. 
    Sometimes, during a pole shift, the movement is 
    slight, and sometimes literal reversals take place, 
    where the crust does, as you say, a 180. The coming
    shift will come close to that, being better than a 
    quarter turn. Having only the Earth's crust to 
    examine, and being in denial or unaware of pole 
    shifts, a human could only assume that the poles 
    had moved, rather than the crust. 
        ZetaTalk™, Pole Reversals
            (http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s27.htm)
                written in 1995