Can Tarot Predict the Future?
No, and the sites that say yes are the reason tarot has a reputation problem. A reading describes where your current momentum leads, not what will happen. Here is the difference, and why it matters.
No. This is the answer that costs some sites money, so they avoid it, but it is the honest one: tarot does not predict the future. What it does is more useful and less theatrical.
What a "future" card actually shows
In a spread, the card in the future or outcome position describes where the current momentum leads if nothing changes. It is a trajectory, not a verdict. You are in the system the reading is describing, and you get a vote. A trajectory you can see is something you can step off of.
Why prediction is a trap
A prediction removes you from your own life. It says the ending is written, which is the opposite of what a reading is for. The moment a reading tells you what will happen, it has stopped helping you choose and started entertaining you. Entertainment wearing insight's coat, as one honest reader put it.
What you get instead
You get a clear picture of the choice in front of you. The cards show the forces that are live in your situation, the fear, the thing you are avoiding, the part you keep calling by the wrong name. That is the material for a decision, which is the whole point of asking.
The test for any reading
If a reading gives you a date, treat it as a story, not a forecast. If it gives you a clearer picture of your own situation, treat it as accurate. The two feel similar in the moment and could not be more different in what they leave you with. Read more on what tarot cannot do, then ask your own question.