The answer to this question is a grey one. Yes, but with a few caveats. The answer exists as a spectrum.
There are devices built into the cards like the numbers and what the card categories mean. There are even ways to describe the seasons with the cards. Because of this, we can say that telling time is possible, but you should recognize there are challenges with it.
One challenge is that the method in which you tell time has contradictions in the source material. A quick search on the internet reveals a handful of top articles that explain how to tell time with the tarot. In these articles, you will see that they are not consistent with each other. If we look at an article from tarotingie.com it has the swords associated with winter whereas goodlifetarot.com has the swords associated with autumn and pentacles with winter.
The tarot community has not yet agreed upon an exact method. This means that telling time is subjective for the reader employing the method. If you can accept this then yes you can tell time. Pick a method, work it out, and tell time with the tarot.
Another challenge using tarot to tell time is the fact that tarot as a whole is typically non-temporal. The messages that come out of the cards generally have little connection to what we perceive as linear time. The meanings and messages that come out of the cards could reference the past, present, or future. These messages also have the potential to become reality in a few days to a few years, that is if they become reality at all.
My opinion is that there is way too much room for the interpretation of time in the tarot. Instead, I recommend focusing on asking more specific questions and then investigating the answers.
There is a limit to how much you can investigate a question. The tarot and your intuition can fatigue in a single session. We have already talked about the cards and your intuition getting tired here. The general rule is that you can’t keep asking the same question, but you can ask to clarify the answers by drawing more cards. If your answer is not clear keep investigating until you are tired of it.
In the end, telling time is possible, but one would have to decide on a method, and accept that the method has variations. My suggestion is to work on asking specific questions and then following up on the answers. You will get to the heart of the question much quicker than asking if something will come to you in time.
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References:
https://www.tarotingie.com/time-events-using-tarot/
https://goodlifetarot.com/blog/2020/07/01/prediction-of-timing/