The short answer is no, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. The longer answer is more interesting, because what tarot actually does turns out to be more useful than fortune telling ever was.
Why the honest answer is no
There is no known mechanism by which a shuffled deck of illustrated cards can access information about events that have not happened yet. No study has shown it, and the people who read cards professionally and thoughtfully will usually tell you the same thing if you ask them directly.
This matters practically, not just philosophically. A reading that claims to know your future invites you to stop making decisions and start waiting for one. That is the opposite of useful, and it is where tarot slips from a reflective tool into something that can genuinely harm people who are frightened or vulnerable.
What tarot does instead
Tarot gives you a structured, image-rich prompt to think against. You pull a card, you see a scene, and something in you responds before you have consciously decided what the card means. That response is data about you, not about the universe.
The cards are deliberately open. The Tower is upheaval, but whether that reads as a job you already know you should leave or a relationship you have been quietly rebuilding around depends entirely on what you brought to the table. Tarot does not supply the content. It supplies the frame, and you fill it in with things you already half knew.
This is why the spread matters. A three card spread organises a messy situation into past, present, and possibility. The gives you ten angles on something you have only been looking at from one. The structure is doing real work, even with no prophecy involved.